Airport won't turn on - Macbook

I'm hoping you guys can help me with this so I don't have to take my Macbook into the store for service.
I have a SR Macbook with the 2.2g processor, almost a year old.
I turned it on last night and tried to turn Airport on, it kept the menu icon highlighted for about 20 seconds like it was trying to start, and then nothing. So when I try it again, I get the beachball and that's it. All the other programs work fine, but whenever I put the cursor over the airport icon, it beachballs. If I try to shut the computer down, it starts to go, but won't ever actually turn off. I have to do that manually.
I haven't made any changes to anything recently, so I'm not sure what would cause this. Any ideas, or should I just take it in?
Thanks

Hello trip211,
I had the same problem.
The post of Kevin Hiscox solved my problem.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1762784

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