Can't connect to base station...

Hi,
I'm new to these boards and have to apologize that in advance that I'm not very knowledgable what I'm doing...any and all help would be appreciated!
Here's the situation, suddenly a few months ago I've been unable to connect to the airport. Our ethernet works fine (but who wants to plug in?). I've spent weeks now trying to narrow down the problem. After several calls with our ISP all we know is that it's with the Airport. Here are my leads:
1) A year and a half or so ago, I know I "hid" the network so it only recognized two mac addresses...I saved the password in my keychain and that was that. I didn't think about it for a year and a half and I don't know what I did! Bad computer user, I know. Question --> Is there any way to undo all of these security settings and/or unlock our base station so we can make sure it's still broadcasting a signal at all?
2) We have an older Airport (not express) I think it's the dual ethernet. We've tried to reset it (the old paperclip in the tiny hole thing) - does this mean we'd need to redo all of our settings?
3) I've been able to use the assistant to get only so far, but it either doesn't include the base station in the list, or won't let us log on (says password is incorrect).
4) Is it time to upgrade anyway?? If so, would we need to undo our settings to do this?
If anyone has had this issue and could point me toward a help topic thread or support link or offer advice it would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Leashed to the ethernet...
iBook   Mac OS X (10.3)  

Figured it out - security settings were incompatible.

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