Airport keeps randomly turning off and wont turn back on!

Hey guys,
I've had this problem for a while now and it is driving me CRAZY!
I will be randomly surfing the net, and then all of a sudden airport will turn off! (the shape you get when you click turn off airport - not how it looks like when there is no connection)
So when I click on "turn airport on" but nothing happens! Almost like its not clickable.
I've surfed online and tried multiple things. from just restarting (which works but then it will disconnect another time) to Deleting airport completely, restarting, and reinstalling airport. This works but then 5 days later it will mess up again. (But now its started becoming once-twice a day!)
Yesterday I updated all of the wifi software updates and updated my mac update from 10.5.5 to 10.5.8, hoping this might be the problem, but it disconnected again!
I've also tried taking the battery out etc.. but nothing works!!!
any suggestions?!
Zahra

My daughter is having the same problem. She tells me it started from day one but so sublte she didn't think it was a software/hardware problem ( how could be its a brand new computer right) , and we bought it for her in 2008. The interruptions were not as often, and she didn't know it as well as she does now. She thought it had to do with our internet at home, and when she went to college it stopped. Inside the school network it doesn't fail, but this year she moved outside of campus and the problem has become a nuisance, like Zahra says, it's driving her crazy now. She went to apple store and of course the problem did not happen there. So they could not help her. They told her to delete all software and re-install, and so she did, but the first thing it did after that was turn off. It kicks her out of internet continuously, and the ariport light or signal turn off. The next step it was suggested was to replace airport for 175$ for the whole repair, and if it's not fixed they will refund, but what after that.
I read somewhere that security updating can cause these problems as well as others regarding non authorized changes in system preference network settings. Not sure if it was related to a problem with a bad airport specifically, but it does with connectivity issues and interruptions.
I think my daughter also updated from OS X 10.5.5 to 10.5.8, and her book is 2 years old. If someone can help Zahra, maybe you can help us too. Thank you.
Thanks to anyone that can help.

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