Airport failing to connect to live hub

Hi all, i gather from reading the forum pages that a number of users are having the same problem as me, so at the risk of gettin on a soap box....
While i am browsing on the internet every so often, and without warning the internet connection in airport fails, and the little airport icon in the top menu bar next to the volume shows like there's no signal. My hub is not failing and is all lit up like a christmas tree indicating the wireless is fine. I get a message telling me that i am no longer connected to the internet. The only reason for this seems to be the performance of airport in my macbook pro. I have recently downloaded a few new updates to software, including a supposed fix to the issues with airport intermittently failing. This seems to have only made the situation worse. Previously i was able to re-enable the connection by re-booting the macbook. This is no longer fixing the connection. I know there's no issue with the service provider as i am still able to get online via the firewire route, but this is definitely not the first choice.
Anyone got any suggestions?

Hi Daniel,
take a look here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=446702&tstart=0

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