Emac lost wireless connection

My husband's emac connected fine with our home wireless network for the first few weeks after I switched from an original airport base station to a time capsule. But after the computer was unplugged for several days, it now will not connect any more.
Everything else still is connected: my new iMac; my iPod (even in the same location as the eMac; a WindowsXP laptop (also in the same location).
I ran a hardware test. Everything passed. I ran DiskUtility to repair permissions. I unplugged everything. I guessed at some plists to trash.
Ultimately I feel the problem lies here: First, when choosing Network from System Preferences, the Airport ID is not the same as my base station ID. Should it be? Second, I can only get the network to appear by selecting Join a specific network. An 8-dot password is already there but my current password has 13 characters. I can hightlight and type it in, click apply now and this is what happens. The correct network name reappears, but 8-dot password reappears and I am advised to turn on the Airport first. Trouble is, according to the airport menu it is on (I can toggle it off and on), but InternetConnect does show no signal and all the bars remain gray.
I just feel there is some little tweak needed, but don't know what it is. Help will certainly be appreciated as we share a car better than we share computers.

The eight dots showing for the password may be because a good security feature is to not show exactly how many characters are in the actual password. However, while it's been too long since I've used OS X 10.2.x (as shown in your profile) to really trust my memory, I'm wondering if the older Airport software only recognizes the first eight characters of the entered password. Until the server software was finally updated, that actually happened with some regularity at work --- network server would let you enter long passwords, but would only parse the first 8 characters, resulting in connection failures. Is changing your network password to one with 8 characters an option? You can also try temporarily turning off the "require a password to connect" option on your wireless base station, restart the base station and eMac, and see if it will connect minus the password.

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