Airport stopped connecting

My Macbook works great. It connects to my wifi network everytime. I just turned it on and it will not connect. Every other computer in my house is connected. Is it broke??? or is there a fix?
Thanks anyone for your help.
Steve

Maybe my story can help you:
I have an Airport Extreme. It not accept connection. This has occurred twice the last few months. Solution has been to power AE and all macs down, reboot and all is OK. Problem not on the machines as I have 3 Macs and 1 HP that can not connect.
Today reboot did not solve the problem.
Systems and versions:
Macs v10.5.8
AE display version 7.4.2 clicking on the word "version" changes this to 74200.9.
No HW update is available for the airport nor the macs.
Since power on/off does not work I opened Airport Utility and
1) did manual set up again, only adding check in the box for "Check for updates" this restarted it but no help.
2) in AirPort Utility, turned off wireless and update, then turned on wireless and update, both restarted the AE device. This gave me a new Wireless Network Name. It automatically used the same password. And now it connects but I had to choose the AP network manually. Good thing I am the only Apple network in the neighborhood, else I might have missed the fix!
3) I renamed it to its "old name". Turned the MacBook Airport off. When I turn the MacBook AP on it connects automatically.

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