Airport Password not Sticking

Help,
New MacBook - I started having Airport problems and trying to fix them:
1. Airport wasn't automatically joining my home network so I:
2. Played with Keychain Access
3. Keychain wouldn't let me "Show Password" on my home network so I:
4. Selected "Change Password for the selected keychain" and changed it
5. Now I'm entering my passwords back in as I visit sites, etc... but:
6. Now Airport can't remember my very long WEP password and I've entered it one too many times.
7. Help

Reconfigure your wireless network with a new name and new password.
iFelix

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I suspect that that "Apple helpline person" is just getting lazy...
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1) Use the AirPort menu bar item to turn AirPort off, then on again.
2) Try to select your Wi-Fi network from the AirPort menu.
3) In the Network panel of System Preferences delete the AirPort item from the left column, then add it back.
4) In the same panel as (3), define a new location and see if you can make that work.
5) In the same panel, select the AirPort connection item, click the "Advanced" button, select the "TCP/IP" tab, then click "Renew DHCP Lease".
6) In the folder /Library/Preferences ( _not_ <yourhomefolder>/Library/Preferences), move the folder SystemConfiguration onto the Desktop, then restart your computer. See if you can now make your AirPort connection work.
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One is a +base station+ or device password and the other is the password for your wireless network.
When you say that +I went into Airport Utility and changed the Base Station password+, do you mean that you changed the wireless network password?
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AFP://TCname.local Where TCname is replaced with the actual name.
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OK - here's where I am with this, any help anyone here could give me would be greatly appreciated.
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MacMini (mid 2011) Server edition (Intel i7 with 4 cores, 2 disks and 4GB ram)
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The Netherlands - Europe (+1 GMT)

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Saw a thread saying to delete the server app (trash it) and re-boot, re-download from app store and try again - did that, still same problem.
Sigh. I try so hard to convince others that Apple is the way to go, but all these server issues (none of my exisiting services will work now - 'error reading settings' message) just make me wonder whether it's worth persisting.
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I have one 2tb TimeCapsule and two Macs backing up to the device.
Both devices are successfully creating backups to the TC with individual sparse bundles being created and I can enter TimeMachine to view backed up folders / files no problem.
The problem comes when starting either Apple Mac device - holding 'cmd R' - and attempting to restore from time machine backup. I can gain access to each devices backup and they show in the window however the password for accessing them (TimeMachine / TimeCapsule password rather than AirPort) does not work. I am 100% sure its the correct password and have even deleted one backup and reinstalled TimeMachine backup for a device, giving it the same password to check if there were any errors with it. This is still not accepted... so the TimeCapsule does not allow restoring from backup because I cannot get past the password, even though its 100% correct. I have noticed the keyboard sign in the top right initially stays selected to US rather than UK which caused problems initially gaining access using the Airport password but I selected UK and deleted US as an option, allowing access past AirPort password. The keyboard however does change back from UK to US when selecting a TimeMachine backup to restore from and I have tried both UK and US keyboard configurations with no avail.
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Thanks. I think this "The backup will simply be copied from the TC to the USB disk with whatever password you have on it." will cause a problem because the existing entered password is not working. Unfortunately I don't think there is a work around for this.
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Opening a Pages document from the Finder window (Pages is assigned to space 5. Finder window in this example is in space 1)
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Hi there
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My airport connection to the wireless router has, over the last few days, been becoming increasingly flaky and intermittent followed last night by a total refusal to connect.
It had been working fine for at least a year up until recently.
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