Dell Dimension 5150 Desktop fitted with a Cohiba w...

Evening all,
I have a Dell 5150 desktop PC with a Cohiba 3887 USB wifi adapter fitted, when I boot up the PC and login, the adapter status is "connected to BT Homehub 2 - TRT2", after about 1 minute the status changes to "unable to connect to your preferred wifi networks". If I then go to the wifi network list and connect manually everything is OK, how can get the adapter to connect automatically. I've had a look at the network setting (several times), the homehub is set to automatically connect, tried changing some of the settings but no joy. Thanks.
O/S Windows XP Pro.
Memory 3GB
Pentium D 2.8 Ghz
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Thanks for your reply, I've changed the HH setting to b/g, no change. It looks as though there is a conflict between whatever is connecting the adapter during bootup (BT wireless manager?) and when windows tries to take over and connect to "preferred networks", if I take windows out of the mix by disabling "let windows manage your network connection" in the network settings, it will auto connect to BT Fon, which is not in my preffered network list (only the BT Homehub is) but BT Fon is in my "available network list"........Confused? I certainly am!
The Cohiba driver was installed about a year and a half ago, just before they stopped supporting the adapter, consequently no newer driver available but the adapter does work OK once I've manually connected it.

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