Airport Extreme locks up when Macbook Pro tries to reconnect

After a few minutes of operation my MacBook Pro loses connection with the Airport Extreme. When doing this it locks up the AE base station. This base station works fine with the other mac and windows products that I use with it. This only happens when the MacBook Pro drops connection, or it is dropping connection due to the fact that the MacBook Pro is having problems.
Again, this does not happen if I do not turn on my MacBook Pro. It runs fine weeks at a time. All my products have the latest firmware updates from Apple.

This is a very frequent problem for me that first began more than a year ago. For a while it seemed to settle, but is now a daily affair after my MacBook Pro goes to sleep overnight. It used to respond to a restart, but that is no longer true. My solution is just to retry repeatedly: eventually a connection is made, but it can take several minutes to work. I use WPA security. The recent Airport software update to 5.5.1 made no difference. I have not tried to update to 10.6.3 yet.

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