How can I stay on wifi?

I've noticed that when I'm at home on my wifi network, if the phone goes to sleep, it will wake up on the EDGE network. I'd much rather that it stays on wifi, so I don't have to wait for the phone to reconnect each time it wakes up. This causes problems with the mail client, which sometimes gets confused when checking mail while the network connection is switching from EDGE to wifi. Also my phone is set to auto-check email in the background, and I'd rather not do this over EDGE (especially if someone tries to call me at the same time).
Does anyone know if it's possible to stay on your wifi network even if the phone is asleep?
If it makes any difference, I'm using WPA2 with an 802.11g Airport Extreme (the previous model that looked like a nipple).

I just noticed today that my phone had reverted to Edge even though I have a strong wi-fi here and it had been connected before. Last night I had connected to my son's wi-fi for the first time and that may have had something to do with it.
To "recover" I had to turn Wi-Fi off then on and it connected to the local AP just fine. I did try to "renew lease" in the Wi-Fi settings before that but that didn't do much good, it still showed the 169.whatever bogus IP address. Bill W

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