Airport signal fades in snow leopard

Since Snow Leopard arrived I was plagued by a fading airport signal and resorted to a USB adapter in place of Airport. After about 20 minutes of use Airport signal fades and the network is lost.
A friend recently updated to Snow Leopard and has now got similar Airport and network problems.
All day today I have been working off a SuperDuper clone of Leopard on an external drive. I use page layout software that is not available for Snow Leopard. The surprising thing is that Airport has been full strength all day.
Is there a known problem?
AW.

I just downloaded the 10.6.2 update, and I can now print wirelessly to my HP 1012 via an older Airport Express! Give it a try. Maybe you'll be lucky, too!

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