How I fixed my Lion Internet Connectivity Problem

I know that there is a 25+ page trail of questions on this. I think I looked at every one but nothing worked. I called apple care. I got help fast. We tried about 30 min worth of stuff. They finally said bring it to a genius bar.   I did not want to go there. So I kept playing with it. But first my problem:
I have 2 iphones, an ipad, and 2 macbook pros connected to an airport express.   All working very happily together. Then I upgraded to lion on the two MBP's. One of them continues to work. The other, while it seems to connect to the airport will not connect to the internet on any browser or email software after it wakes from a sleep. Cycling the wifi on the MBP fixes it till it goes to sleep.
So I was beating my brains over this.   Then I thought...hey.... I can see my nieghbors wifi on a linksys router. It works....I am on....go to sleep...wake...still works. Hmmmmmm.
So it dawned on me that the problem was something stored in the airport.   I did a factor reset. Pull the power, depress the reset button, put the power back on, release the reset after 6 secs.   I then used my keychain utility, on the MBP, to eliminate any previous passwords for the router (not sure if that was needed).   I used airport utility to reconfigure the airport. I used all my old names and passwords so I did not have to change the other devices.
It WORKED!!!!
I am not sure if this will work with other wireless routers but it might.
Message was edited by: bob Keenan
I spoke too soon...problem returned after closing laptop for a while.

Hi Bob
Just a thought for you. It will be interesting to see if it works. I have an MBP which upgraded fine. My iMac 27 initially showed the wake from sleep problem. Both go through the same router so that should not be the problem - logically. All I have done with the iMac was to repair permissions - probably three times and to re-start after. The iMac is now fine - apart from a couple of other unrelated problems, which again, did not appear with the MBP.
Personally, if I have to start doing things in Terminal it is not my problem - I spent too long with DOS and Edlin to go back to that!
Cheers
TY

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