G3 imac wireless wpa

Hi all,
I am running os 10.3.9 on this G3. I have installed an airport card and can connect fine with
WEP but no luck with WPA. From reading various posts i understood that installing all software updates would update the airport software to work with WPA but no luck. I have tried downloading the separate airport updates (3.3 plus) but these refuse to install saying I need O.S. 10.4. i am confused by this as Apple seems to say that the updater to 3.3 works with O.S. 10.3.
Any help appreciated,
Thanks,
k

There is a similar discussion in the iBook G3 forums. Note the post by Ronda Wilson that includes a quote from L4 user Tesserax.
Here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2114217

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