Getting Locations and various WIFI networks under better control...

I have several networks that I use. I have a strong preference for some reason to use OpenDNS.
-Home 1 (Airport Extreme, WPA2 Personal, Static IP although DHCP for everyone else - Bonjour printer attached to AE)
-Home 2 (Airport Extreme, WPA2 Personal, Static IP although DHCP for everyone else)
School (802.1X, WPA Enterprise)
-Work (Linksys Wireless G Access Point, Static IP, their own DNS servers (can I still use OpenDNS?), primarily a wired Windows workgroup, but all on the same network, so I can still use Bonjour to get a shared printer)
-Random networks....just want to access them and use DHCP with OpenDNS.
So is it possible to cut down on some of the locations? I usually have to select my location when I move, and recently have had to additionally select the WiFi network from the Airport Menu, it has always been automatic I think. I would love a seemless network switch based on which networks are found in range... is this possible without 3rd party, or do I need to go that direction?
My iPhone does this beautifully and automatically... how can my MBP do this? (exceptions being printers and that iPhone will not connect to my school's primary network that I mentioned above, I use their secondary network which I have to lease for an hour at a time - I'm pumped to have my legit 2.0 firmware).
Thanks for your help.

I just erase and installed Leopard on my angry MBP that always gets ****** off (it's been through 3-4 migrations and restores). I spared no mercy to preferences or backed up programs, all from scratch, just documents, music, movies etc. in my home folder.
So I got to play with a very fresh and clean list of settings for the first time in a while.
My iPhone... manages manual IPs and server settings based on the WiFi network that I am on. When I am at home on one network, I have DHCP with a manual address. When I'm at work, I have a different gateway and static IP address.
Network manual IPs do not change with Leopard do they? The way that I have to manage my static IPs right now is by creating new locations and manually switching at each location. Isn't there some way for this to happen automatically.
I wake up, check my email at home, on a static IP. Boom.
I go to work, open my laptop, get on the internet. Boom.
Forgetting locations, is this possible? My iPhone does it without complaint...

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Do a factory reset .. nothing will be deleted from your backups and you will be able to get access to them again.
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I was going to start a new topic, but since this is here, I will add to it.
I have a home network with 2 Macs that were recently upgraded to leopard (I like to wait), a PC running Windows 2000, a PC running Windows XP, and 2 PC's running Vista. With Tiger, I had no problems whatsoever in finding the various machines and logging into them. It was always immediate and seamless.
After upgrading the 2 Macs to leopard 2 weeks ago, the network is intermittent. No changes were made anywhere, other than the upgrade. Network settings on the Macs were verified and are set properly. When I boot up either machine, and open Finder to get on any of the PC's, all that shows up is the other Mac. None of the PC's are visible at first. But over the next 3 to 4 hours, the PC's on the network slowly appear.
To me, this is a serious bug that must be addressed by Apple. I see many other people having the same problem, and for people that work on Macs and PC's together, there is a huge impact on productivity due to this network delay.
Has anyone found a fix or a way around this problem? I ask here as Apple is notorious for lack of support and has never responded to a single support query of mine.
Thank you in advance for any help.
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