IBook G4 (Mid 2005) - AirPort 'disappeared' - Help!

Hello.
I'm an owner of an iBook G4 (Mid 2005) @ 1.33GHz.
It's been working perfectly since it has been bought. Till yesterday...
It came with Tiger, but some time ago I ordered Leopard. Everything was still working fine. But few days ago I decided to update OS to 10.5.2. After that it was still OK.
I use XAMPP (Apache Distribution with MySQL and other stuff). It set up permissions for 'nobody' on /Applications/xampp where I keep my site's files. Every time I wanted to save a file there (using BBEdit) I had to authenticate.
Yesterday, I got back to work on my site and when I tried to save a file and authenticated - whole system just freezed. But before, Software Update showed up and said that the Leopard Graphics update is ready to be installed, but I didn't want to update that time so I closed it.
I think that might be caused by some permissions' violation between some applications using that directory (I had few web browsers open, and my server was accessible via AirPort at all). I hard-reset my iBook.
When Mac OS got loaded - I noticed that my AirPort Extreme card is no longer recognized.
http://www.wroclaw.mm.pl/~kaziorvb/no_airport.png
http://www.wroclaw.mm.pl/~kaziorvb/no_airport2.png
That was really weird.. It just disappeared..
First, I tried resetting PMU. No result. Also reset PRAM. Then safe-booted.
Amazingly - AirPort was back! So I decided to reboot and just get back to work, but it disappeared once again. Tried resetting PMU and PRAM again and again, but with no results... I shut it down and opened it.
It's the last revision, so the AirPort card is not normally accessible.
Closed it, and booted once again. Still no AirPort...
I installed that update mentioned before by downloading it manually from Apple Downloads. It didn't change anything.
As I borrowed my Leopard Install DVD to my friend who's got a new iMac and lost his own, I performed a Hardware Test using my old Tiger (10.4.2) Installation DVD.
It didn't find any problems:
Test Results
AirPort - Passed
Logic Board - Passed
Mass Storage - Passed
Memory - Passed
Modem - Device found (What about this one? Is it normal?)
Video RAM - Passed
and in the Hardware Profile:
Communication
Ethernet HW address: xxx
AirPort card: AirPort Extreme
Bluetooth: Present
FireWire devices: Not present
It all just appeared to be OK, and my issues were only software-related.
I thought of performing a clean Mac OS X Tiger installation, so I started making backup.
Booted normally and again, the AirPort was back! Found my home network, typed in the password and successfully connected. After a while I got a kernel panic, so I had to restart the machine.
Again, AirPort was on. This time I managed to connect to the internet. Did all the backup, but then I got another kernel panic. I reset the PMU, what resulted losing AirPort again.
I thought that system reinstallation will fix all my problems, but I was wrong. Freshly installed Tiger couldn't see the AirPort card. Same after update to 10.4.11. I did all the PMU, PRAM, safe-booting tricks, but never resulting.
I also tried typing 'reset-nvram','set-defaults' and 'reset-all' in the Open Firmware console or typing 'sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions/' in the Terminal. Still no results.
What should I do ? I really don't want to pay boatloads to get it repaired..
Help
kaziorvb

Thanks for your response.
Anyway, I fixed it manually using Warren's tutorial @ Applintosh.
Thank you, Warren!

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