Did Leopard broke my built-in Airport?

My network connections have been buggy since the upgrade. My airport scanner (or whatever it's called) is failing to see all the wifi networks around me including my own AEBS. This usually happens after waking up from a sleep. I have to resort to a restart at times, and even after a restart, it will take the MBP a long time to recognize my wifi. Right now the airport scanner is only showing one network, my AEBS, but I know there are a dozen more networks here. When I choose "Join other Networks" and then do a "Show Networks," the computer won't even find anything.

+No it didn't change anything.+
I'm sorry. I'm not sure what to tell you to do other than do a clean install, but I'm not entirely sure that's what would be necessary for this case (may be overkill and something else that is overlooked.)
Do you have your prior install backed up?
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