Help!  Stupid Internet sharing.

So I turned on Internet sharing stupidly. And I want to connect to a normal router and be able to search for wifi signals. I have searched through the boards and seen a couple people post this question but no answers. This computer is on tiger and is a MacBook. Help me. It says Internet sharing is off but on the airport icon it has an up arrow. Thanks.

Hi Alexander,
Most likely you need to trash these files, reboot, & setup Airport & Sharing again...
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.PrefPane.Network.<12dig itHexNumber>.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconnect.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.networkConnect.<12 digit number>.plist

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