Airport not connecting to network AUTOMATICALLY

Hi all...I have had my MacBook for a couple of weeks now. It was a replacement for my 3 year old 14" iBook G4.
I have not been able to fingure out how to make Airport conect automatically, as I was able to do on my iBook. Anyone know how to accomplish this?
I did a search, but al I could find were people with bad reception or dropped reception. I'm no thaving either of those issues.
Oh, I have an Airport Extreme base station, the same one I used with my iBook.
I appreciate any help y'all can give. Apple support was not helpful. they told me that they thought this functionality was rremoved from the MacBook, but i find that hard to believe.
Thanks!

If you open the Network System Preference and "Show:" the Airport connection…
- Under the Airport tab you should see "By default, join:". Change this to "Preferred networks".
- Now, Use the "+" button to add your network and use the "-" to remove any unused networks. Sometimes if you are having problems it is best just to remove the problematic network and re-add it.
- Now click on the Apply button
- From this point you should automatically connect to only uour preferred networks. If you wish you can now change the "By default, join:" option to Automatic and Apply that.

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Welcome to the HP Forums!
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Re-install the software. HP LaserJet Full Feature Software and Driver.
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