G4 won't connect to Airport!

All of a sudden my G4 (seen below) won't connect to my airport network. Everything has worked fine for over a year now, until yesterday.
I took the G4 with me out of town over the weekend, came back on Sunday and hooked it all back up and jumped on the network. I installed MySync to sync up a MacBook and the G4. I put the G4 to sleep, went in the other room and downloaded the 10.4.6 update on a MacBook. The G4 was asleep until I got home from work Monday evening. When I tried to get on the network, it took a few hours of restarting, shutting down, and trying trying and trying. No idea how I finally got it. It just worked.
I put it to sleep and it sleep until Tuesday evening when the same trouble arises. If I click on the airpot icon repeatedly every 5 seconds or so, I see the three networks in my building, but they everytime I click on the airport icon, there is a different combination of the three. One time I get A and B, one time I get A, B, and C; one time I get A, and C; then B and C. This keeps going. If I try to connect to my network, I get "there was an rror joining the network."
While I was on brefly on Monday, I downloaded the 10.4.6 update, and two airport updates that I had been neclecting, b/c they didn't seem to apply and everything was working fine. since it stopped, I decided to download them.
The MacBook can get on the network fine, and there is a PC on the network fine.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Thanks a TON!

NOTE: I came back a couple hours after my original post, and was able to connect without any problems, but I'm not sure what this means.
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