Can't automatically connect to my home airport with Leopard

After I installed Leopard on my MacBook Pro, I can no longer automatically join my home (Airport) network. I have an antique (flying saucer shaped) airport hub that has worked perfectly for our home network up until now. In order to connect, I have to open Safari, wait for the Network Diagnostic button to appear, then go through the Network Diagnostic sequence. Sometimes it will ask for the password and sometimes not. I called Apple Support and they said that the new Airport utility (with Leopard) will not work on the older Airport hubs. They then transferred me to the Airport specialists, but after 15 minutes of waiting I gave up. I don't really want to spend the money to upgrade to an Airport Extreme, when the current hub works. But, on the other hand, it is a bit of a pain to go through this every time I turn on or wake up my MBP. Does anyone have any ideas how to address this problem?
Thanks.

Hello, andyBall_uk. I figured out the problem, and I'm going to reply to it on here in case anybody else has the same issue they can see this solution. I already had an iOS device before, which saved a "keychain" of the old login info for the router. This was back when the router did have WEP security. Since then, it has been reconfigured for WPA2 however my old keychain was trying to join it as WEP.
To solve this, I went to System Preferences>Network>Advanced
From here, I noticed the
[ + ] [ - ] Drag Networks into the order you prefer
Highlighting my router and hitting the [ - ] sign removed the keychain that would previously only connect as WEP. This now allowed my computer to automatically connect to the router every time I opened it or turned it on.

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If any of the above solutions work, please post back what solved your problem. It will help others with the same problem.
 Cheers, Tom

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