Airport wont turn on mac mini

Hi all
this is an incredibly frustrating problem which i hope you can help with.
I have a Mac mini (intel) which was running happily running a fully updated leopard os, then for no aparent reason the airport would not turn on rendering wifi conections impossible. after hours of hunting for help and finding none i bought snow leopard and did a full install in the hope of retifying the problem.
unfortunalty the problem is still there, sometimes it says airport card not installed sometimes its there, but whatever it says nothing happens when i try to turn it on i press the turn on button but nothing happens.
for fear of the card itsself being faulty i bought a usb wifi dongle, istalled it as per the instructions yet still i cannot get wirelessly on the internet
can someone please help?
thanks

Try doing a complete reinstall again. Not an update, a fresh install.

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