Airport Extreme MAC filtering with iBook G4

Hi,
I recently set up an Airpot Extreme Base Station with my PowerBook G4 and an iBook G4. I like using MAC filtering and setting up a list of specific MAC addresses that can have access to the network. This works fine with my PowerBook and old iMac [through ethernet]. It works initially with the iBook, but when the iBook is restarted, or when it has to reconnect to AEBS for any reason, it only partially connects. It gets full signal, but is not able to connect to internet. Yellow light in network prefs saying it has self assigned IP address but connect access internet. Is there some way to get it to always access without having to constantly reassign it's MAC address on the AEBS and then reboot the AEBS? It seems to work fine when not using any MAC filtering security. But I want it. Any ideas? Many thanks.

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