Ca.t connect to Time Capsule after failed OS update

This is going to be a bit long but here goes:
I was notified of two updates to install this afternoon. I told it to update and partway through the first the system hung. It was a small update and I don't recall what it was, but the second one was a large security update. It never got to that one.
OK, I had to power the system down because it was completely locked up. Upon rebooting it came up fine until it tried to connect to Time Capsule. I typed in my PW and it gave me an incorrect user, PW or login error message. At this point I also could not connect to the internet. Safari gave me a POSIX error: no buffer space available message.
At some point here the status light on TC was flashing yellow. I reset it to the factory defaults to no avail. I still couldn't get into it. I have a clone of the drive so I booted off that and got the same results so that would seem to rule out a corrupted file.
Now for the funny part, I booted into safe mode and I not only had an internet connection, but I was also able to get into the TC setup and everything seems to work fine in safe mode. When I boot into normal mode I am right back to square one. It opens the window for TC and asks for my PW. When I enter it I get the error message about PW/user/login.
And throughout this whole process I was able to access the internet just fine on my PC-BSD machine connected to the router portion of TC. Suggestions anyone?

This mornings update: I can ping so I am getting out. When I click on the network icon in the finder sidebar it comes up empty. When I try to run Netinfo Manager the program stops responding and I have to force quit it. And when I run Airport Utility it actually finds the TC unit, bit when I click continue it comes back after a few seconds and says: An error occured while reading the configuration.
After the please make sure everything is plugged in ,essage I get: (-6753)
Anyone have any idea what is going on here? It almost looks like the Network is information is missing.

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