Can't get 100% signal strength

Under OS X 10.5.7 I had to downgrade AirPort Extreme firmware to 7.3.2 just to make it work. With the OS patch I gave in to the constant harassment of the base station software telling me to upgrade (and interrupting connectivity frequently).
With the new firmware, I have not been able to get 100% signal strength at my iMac, which sits less than 15 feet away from the base station. If anyone has any suggestions, please fire away. I am afraid to go back and get repeatedly harrassed about it.

I still have this problem...being harassed by Airport to upgrade the firmware, tried it again, same effect. Signal strength went to complete crap, made the network unusable. Reversed the change, problem solved. Does Apple even know of this problem? I am so tired of dealing with the harassment of the Airport utility (pops up intermittently on all computers on the network), I am close to replacing the thing with an Ethernet-over-power-lines system.

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