AIrport dropping connection - new wrinkle

This just started happening for me in the past 10 days. I cart my MacBook Pro back and forth to work. At home I connect through a Linksys wireless router that holds a Sprint Broadband access card. At work I connect through a D-Link wireless router connected to my work network. Both use WPA2 Personnel security. At home there are 3 other users (my wife through an ethernet cable to the router, and my sons through earlier-generation Airport cards).
Work is universally working. At home, however, I am getting the dropoffs described in other threads in this forum. Sudden drop - won't even see the router for 10-30 minutes - then all can be fine for hours before it drops again.
Quite annoying.
I have reset the Linksys router firmware to the latest version with no help. I applied keychain first aid. I did an entire Archive and Install of my 10.5.2. My hard drive and permissions are copasetic. My parameter ram is so zapped that it weeps when I reach for the P or R keys. No help.
---Ken (does any of this spark a flash of insight in anyone?) Franklin

OK, I have a ritual that works.
When I first wake my computer from sleep (or turn it on), I let Airport find and log on to the home Linksys network. About 10 seconds after I start up my browser, it drops - and I quickly turn Airport off.
Then I wait over 5 minutes, turn it on again, and everything is fine - no dropouts for as long as the machine is on and awake. If I don't wait 5 minutes, it will either not see the network, or try to log on and "connection timeout".
This has got to be a clue. Is there a log that can provide more details? If so, where is it?
--Ken (over 100,000 files on this hard drive - gotta be SOMETHING) Franklin

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