Airport not selecting network automaticly

Hello all,
I wonder if any of you guys can tell me why my imac wont hock-up with my airport express automaticly.
this is a new thing, it used to connect to it no problem, but i think since one of the last updates, i have had to manually connect it to my home network.
i have tried to make sure the settings are correct and all that, but

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Anyone any suggestions for resolving such a weird problem?
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Situation:
I've got two computers - PowerBook 17" 1,25 GHz, iMac 2,16 GHz 24", both running OS X 10.4.8. They are networked via AirPort Express, firmware v. 6.3, in a WPA protected network. The AirPort distributes ADSL 4 Mbps connection.
Computers are set as DHCP with manual address (to keep stable LAN address)
The problem: While the PowerBook always joins the network after restart/sleep automatically, iMac in such a situation never goes online - the airport status in menu bar is on, the network is checked, but it cannot connect or be reached.
I always have to manually turn airport of from menu bar, then turn it on, then wait about 20 seconds and then manually choose name of my network.
After this procedure iMac is finally online.
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Any idea how to fix it?
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks a bunch, Duane!
You pointed me to the exact answer.
iMac joins the network automatically now, although I had to change original automatic login of an admin user to manual login page, because after automatic login as one of three users, an error message "Network error" appeared quicker than the actual joining the network, that came a few seconds later.
After manual logging (it probably needed a little more time) it's OK.
Thanks again and greeting from Czech Republic!
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I've created a network before on my Mac and shared the internet connection with it. Now, even though I close the network, it keeps coming back automatically after rebooting and returning from sleep mode. That's not something I'd like happening.
Anyone got any idea how to disable this automatic network creation? The operating system is Mac OS X 10.5.8 and Airport version is AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x88).
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The writing's on the wall but I'll put up a post as one last ditch effort.
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This won't help much, but at least help narrowing on the issue:
-> I've got the same problem on my Tiger PowerBook forever. It's linked to my account as I didn't have this issue with other accounts. I did everything possible fiddling with the Keychain and plists of preferred netowrk ... to no avail.
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Howdy,
I now have received my 24" for 3 hours
Happy camper here
I have one issue which I can't figure out.
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