Airport card not joining Networks with passwords?

Hi everyone,
I'm having this problem where my computer WILL NOT let me join any network with a WPA password or WEP.
It only works when I take off the password to my router, and I don't want people stealing my internet.
I installed every update I could possibly do, but still nothing.
Does anyone have any ideas?

I used a decent password and it was converted to abunch of random numbers, I entered those in three possible ways
(without spaces,with spaces,with all the letters not capitalized,with them all capitalized, etc)
and it STILL WON'T LET ME IN!!!!!
on the WPA whenever I put the password in it does the same, won't let me in.
It had WPA2 which was WPA compatible.
and it's a belkin N+ router.

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