HELP!!! - Internet up, but EasyLink Advisor can not find network

Question

All,
This is my first experience using a wireless router and although I sent everything up according to directions and the network has worked for at least 3 weeks now (both my computer and PS3 seem to work without issue), all of a sudden when I click on the 'EasyLink Advisor' it will not display my network at all (as if I never went through the steps to set the router up in the first place).
I have the WRT54G model and am running Windows XP, Service Pack 2. Again, when I click on the Easylink Advisor icon, the window comes up but everything is greyed out (My Network, Actions, and Support). The first window I get is the 'Network Setup Wizard' to guide me through the steps to setup my router (which is already set up and working).
If anyone has any idea on what I can do in order for the information on my network to reappear it would be greatly appreciated. I'd really rather not have to go through the entire setup process again and chance messing things up on both computer and PS3 if possible (and I really don't want to have to uninstall and reinstall again).
Thank you all in advance for your help - I really appreciate it!

Answer 1

I just installed a new WRT5G after 4-5 years of excellent service from my old one (the old one fritzed out-couldn't even reset factory settings).  I like the idea of Easy Advisor, especially the way it detected the the machines connected to my network and listed all my router settings in one place.  However, I believe that it interferes with the proper operation of the router and/or internet connection and I do not allow it to start automatically anymore.
I experienced two or three occasions where I activated ELA from the System Tray and my internet connection got blown out of the water altogether.  The more damning evidence comes from an online program that I run from a remote computer that since the new router had become severely laggy to an extent I had never seen with the old router. The program monitors network status to several different servers, and during this laggy event it rated the connections with each service as Fair or Poor.  Having suspected issues with ELA, I ended the program, and my network status immediately went to Very Good (the best rating possible) / 100%. 
What convinced me that this was no coincidence is that the next day I had extremely poor performance again, and I went down to the computer connected to the router and found that ELA had restarted when my daughter had logged on.  As soon as I ended the program again, my online program returned to 100% connectivity.
I had to log on to each of my users accounts and run msconfig in order to uncheck ELA from starting up automatically even though I had disabled it from the Computer Administrator account.  That was quite a pain and I would have had no qualms about uninstalling it altogether if I'd had any further trouble with it.
Like I said, ELA is great in concept, but the fact that the program has trouble finding the router when everything is connected and configured properly is pretty troublesome.  Bottom line, though, is that you don't need ELA to configure your router.  It's not that hard to do and you can get plenty of guidance from the internet and I would imagine this board.  It's the same way you had to do it before ELA anyway.