IOS 4.2 and Airport Extreme don't like each other

I have three iPod Touch's - one 3G and two new 4G's. The 3G never had any problems connecting to the Extreme until it was upgraded to iOS 4.2 now it rarely even sees the Extreme even if I am sitting right beside the router. The 4G's also rarely even see the Extreme. Occasionally they will "connect" but I do not actually get an IP address and thus no actual internet connection.
I did set up a guest network on the Extreme sans security so I could ty and connect with any WEP/WPA issues. Again the iPods will sometimes see the Extreme but when it "connects" I almost never get an IP address. On one occasion I was able to connect to the guest network and did get an IP address and a net connection but it was so slow it was essentially unusable.
All three iPods will connect to other routers (non-Airport Extreme) without any problems. Fortunately all 3 devices can also connect to my MiFi without any problems whatsoever.
My Mac Mini connects wirelessly to the Airport Extreme without any problems and I have other devices connected to the Airport Extreme via ethernet cabling and all work without any problems.
I have tried all the usual resets, restarts, etc. to no avail.
I was going to go ahead and just buy a new Airport Extreme thinking that perhaps the problem may just be with the radio transceiver part of the router. However, since the Mac Mini connects wirelessly just fine the radio transceiver in the router is probably ok.
It appears to me that judging by my problems and from other folks having similar issues with iOS 4.2 devices that there seems to be a serious bug with that iOS version and wifi connections to Apple's own router and apparently some other wifi routers.
I hope Apple addresses this issue soon!!!

Do a search on the forums. This topic comes up pretty often. Before you do anyhting esle, though, I'd go here
http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html
and get the updated JVM for XP. XP doesn't come with the latest JVM installed. Instead IE is using the MS piece of crap that they are legally allowed...
Anyway, if you load the JVM from the auto installer at that link, your IE options (advanced) will be set to use this JVM instead of the MS piece of crap. If you manually download and install (no real good reason to) you will have to change the preference yourself (there're instructions).
I use XP prof and SDK's for 1.4 and 1.3 plus the websphere eclipse for limited devices and regular Java, and haven't had a problem with any of it -- but I updated the JVM early and made sure IE points to it.
I also have my XP machine dual boot with SUSE 8.0 Linux. Actually, XP prof has been really stable for me.
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