Connecting to hidden/closed network

I have all the latest updates for my Macbook Pro, but I've noticed that whenever I restart the computer, it can't connect to my network at school. It's a hidden network, but I have it in my preferred list, so it ought to be able to find it. When I just put the computer to sleep, it can find it when it wakes back up, but if I shut it down or restart it, I have to either select "Other" from the Airport list and re-enter all the information or go to the network options and just enter the password for it again (for some reason it doesn't want to save the passwords for my networks). This happened to me at home when I had that network set up as hidden, so I eventually changed it to open so that I didn't have to deal with it all the time. Is there a step I'm missing somewhere?

Sometimes the etwork configuration get a little messed up so try going to the network System Preference and remove the network from the perferred networks list. Apply the change and then readd the network and see if that helps.

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