Anyone have trouble with sharing internet by Airport from the iMac?

I was using my 20" iMac as a transmitter for our internet connection and we started to see the strangest problem. The iMac would continue to indicate that it was transmitting, but the signal would disappear on the end of the 12" powerbook, TiBook and iBook that were using it.
The iMac was not going to sleep - was set to never sleep - continued to have a working connection, continued to indicate it was transmitting, but the shared connection wasn't visible on the list of either powerbook.
Turning airport off and on in all the machines didn't help, stopping sharing and restarting it didn't help. But then suddenly the signal would show up again sometimes in 10 minutes, sometimes in an hour.
Tried using all different sorts of levels of encryption, including no password - same problem.
We're currently using an Airport Extreme base station with no problems, and have used a linksys router with no problems. The hardware test indicates no issue with the iMac airport and the iMac is capable of joining and maintaining a connection with the airport express base station or the linksys router without a problem.
It seems to only have a problem when it is hosting the wireless network. (This issue is in addition to the slowness of the iMac airport connection, but that's a different thread)

Never had an answer to this - just stopped using the Airport on the iMac. For now, I'll mark this as answered.

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