Getting Location Preferences to 'stick'

In 10.3 or 10.2, I could define a specific wireless network for a Location. I can't seem to do this in 10.4 anymore - I only have a preferred list.
As an example, I have two networks in my home, a public and private wireless network with two diferent wireless base stations. Now, in 10.4, if I switch back and forth between my public and private home locations, it does not automatically switch to the proper base station, since all locations seem to share one preferred network list.
How do I get this setup to work like it used to in older version of Mac OS X?
Thank you.

I have the same problem. Sort of....
I have an old network location left over from when I had Panther on my computer. That one has the "join a specific network option" and I have that set to my private network. My other location, that I set up after upgrading to Tiger, I want to set up to join my other network by default. However, everytime I switch to the first location, it automatically moves that network to the top of the preferred network list, with the result that when I switch to the second location it doesn't automatically switch to the second network. I have different TCP/IP settings for the two locations so I can't stay on one location and manually switch networks via the menu bar. I'm stuck having to change the location and the network every time I want to change networks. (Not to seem like I'm whining but this is very frequent as my printer is on one network and my Internet connection's on the other...)
I believe you've pointed out the root of the problem, i.e. a shared preferred network list.
Definitely seems like a bug to me...

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