Airport Express invisible to Macbook Pro

Hello folks,
I've had an Airport Express wireless router for about 4 months now and from the get go I've had problems with it.
Particularly, When I power the airport express off and switch it back on again, my Macbook pro cannot find the network, even after numerous restarts. I've discovered that if I have some other wireless device connect to it, like my Wii, PSP or even my macbook running windows XP, then Mac OS recognizes the network right away with no problems. It's just that I need to have some other operating system find it first.
It's rather annoying but to have to go through all of that extra step, and I'd rather leave my airport off when I'm not using it so I can save some energy. Has anyone any idea about how to get around this problem? Thank you.
-Josh
Macbook Pro 2.0 GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.9) 'Airmac = Airport'

Malisa80 wrote:
I'm using a Airport Express to have Wifi internet in my appartment. There are my Macbook and my boyfriend's PC connected to that network. Everything was working fine until one week ago.
Suddenly, my Macbook was not able to find out our network (secured with WPA password) anymore. But, the PC can find it ok and my MacBook can see all the other networks of the neighborhood!
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
You might try resetting your connection settings using the steps listed in this message:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10695921&start=1
They're not guaranteed to solve the problem, but they'll only take you a minute or so to try.

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