Airport Keychain problems

How do I find the keychain password for the system keychain?
I open keychain access and find the Airport network passwork under the system keychain. When I ask to see the password I cannot - it says my keychain password is incorrect. This is my user pasword and it works for the login keychain.
Why do I want to know? Because the last 2 times I've installed an apple software update, I've been locked out of the Air Express Network. Now there are more updates and I am reluctant to install them since the last times took many many hours of work to recover from, and in neither case do I know why the computer eventually asked if I wanted to fix my keychain.
G4 Powerbook Mac OS X (10.3.9)

*BLESS YOU!*
This explains why it has followed me for multiple system versions, across multiple different computers. I always move System Preferences into Utilities (where it belongs, dammit!). It would have persisted on my "new" system had I rebuilt it.
To be even more precise, the message posted here was right on the money!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6683361&#6683361
Now to amend my bug report to Apple to FIX whatever dependency there is on System Preferences. Who would have thought such a thing would be related?

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