Airport Express network suddenly no longer visible - but only for one Mac..

What the..?
My 20" iMac Core Duo can no longer see my Airport Express network. It happened yesterday after restarting the AE a few times.. (I do this and also restart the modem from time to time if the net connection stalls - or I want to boot of my housemate's PC from the network cause she's hogging bandwidth)..
Anyway.. The first restart caused it to not re-appear on the list of available networks, so I restarted again.. then it was fine - it came back. All good.
I reset it again this morning because the net connection was not meeting my expectation and now the iMac no longer sees the AE network.
I can connect to other Wi-Fi networks around me (there is a neighbour with no WEP) but cant see hide nor hair of my own network.
The puzzling thing is that my girlfriend's Mac Book, my other iBook G3 and my housemate's PC can all see it and use the network fine - as normal..
So what has happenned? And what do I need to do?
Between you and me ..This intel iMac has been a bit tempramental ever since I got it.. weird things like this happen to it from time to time.. never one thing that you can point at and say AHA! Faulty [something] but just weird stuff like this... Hmmmm..
Some help would be much appreciated.. Thanks!
20" iMac Core Duo 2.0GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 256MB Graphics

Well, from reading some other posts, and trying my own experimenting, I have gotten it to work.
Deleting the keychain did nothing, manually connecting to the network by typing the name in etc.. nothing.
What DID work was using my G3 iBook (which could see the network) to use the Airport Administrator to change the channel from Automatic to manual - in this case channel 7 (a completely arbitrary choice).
The thing I cannot work out is why it had this issue in the first place. It worked fine for months then one day decided that it apparently didn't like automatic channel selection.
The problem is solved but the cause is still a mystery.
Hopefully though, this might help others with the same problem.
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If you don't have any such programs installed, or that doesn't fix the problem: Make sure you're logged into the account where Safari is having problems, make sure Safari is quit, and then open that user's home folder (indicated in a Finder window sidebar by the little house icon with the username) and open the Library folder inside it, then the Preferences window inside that.
(In other words navigate to \~/Library/Preferences, where "~" is the user's home folder.)
Locate the "com.apple.Safari.plist" file in that preferences folder and drag it to the trash.
Launch Safari and check to see if it's any better now.
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* Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'trying to set a non-ToDo MailboxUid for a ToDo. The MailboxUid for a ToDo must be a ToDosMailboxUid'
Permissions repaired. File ownership checked. Reloaded Leopard with Archive&Restore. Nothing seems to help. However, other logins on the same Powerbook dont have any problems. Mail works fine for those IDs.
Has anyone got a solution or do I have to wait for 10.5.1 for some relief?
Thanks......

Have you tried synchronizing the mailbox? (The pop-up menu accessed by the little cog icon in the lower left corner of the Mail window, or the Mailbox menu)
How about taking the Mail account off line and then reconnecting it?
Do you have lots of messages in this Inbox? Moving old email to an archive "On My Mac" so they're removed from the dot-Mac server reduces the amount of synchronization that has to be done and thus less risk of encountering a corrupt message file.
Are there lots of attachments to messages? Sometimes a corrupt attachment can cause a problem.
Just some ideas.

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Hi,
I'd like to send texts to my friend who owns an iPhone, but not on iMessage.
(That friend owns an iPhone, but can't connect on 3G. So she gets my texts only when she can connect on wi-fi...)

Your friend would have to disable iMessage. As far as your phone is concerned, since you have connected with her via iMessage, it will always try that.

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The problem ...
I have an excel spreadsheet that I share with my partner, i.e. another user on my Mac. The file works just fine for me, but is very slow to save when my partner uses it. Save time for me is about 3 seconds, for my partner about 45 seconds. The problem only seems to be with this one file, and the slow save time is driving her nuts! (I'm not able to upload the file as it contains confidential info).
The file is about 225kB with about 6 worksheets and some macros. It’s stored in a folder below the standard OSX ‘shared’ folder. Both users have identical permissions on these folders and this file.
What have I tried already? Re-saving the file in a different place, renaming it, re-creating it by copying the contents to a blank file, repairing permissions on my partner’s user account, copying excel .plist files from my user to hers, deleting her .plist file & creating a new one. None of these have worked.
System details ... 2.8GHz I5 iMac (late 2010 vintage), 8GB memory, OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). Excel for Mac 2011 v14.2.3 (auto updates on & all installed I believe)
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