Can't connect Macbook to Apple Airport

I was in middle of watching a youtube video, it died about 1/2 way through. Then I noticed my MacBook status bar showed I wasn't connected to my wifi connection any more. My iPhone was still connected to my network with no issues at all. I tried to reconnect to my airport router, and it's giving me a timeout error on the connection. Also if I try to connect to one of the local unsecured wifi networks (which worked before) that is also not able to connect. wired connection on the mac works with no issues, it's how I'm posting this now. I've tried...
-removed 'airport' from the network preferences
-added new 'airport' listing in network preferences
-did a reset on my airport router, including changing the wpa password
-did a pram reset on my mac
-did a reinstall of the latest airport firmware to my airport router.
-tried different channels on the wifi settings via airport utility (all work fine for iPhone, not the macbook)
During troubleshooting my wireless connection came back, for about 5-10 minutes, than dropped again. I'm really not sure if this is a simple software (preferences file?) problem with my mac... or if the wifi card is going. I'm gonna take my macbook over to my girlfriends house, going there for dinner tonight anyway, and see if their wifi network will play nice.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Phil

Your question asked.....
Can either of these three connect to the existing router (which is not an Apple router and cannot be changed) wireless?
So we understood that you wanted to connect to the existing router using wireless.
If you can run an Ethernet cable from one of the LAN <-> ports on your existing router to the other house, then you could connect one of the Apple routers that way.
Compare the Apple routers here to find one that might meet your requirements:
http://www.apple.com/compare-wifi-models/

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