Ios6 iphone 4S -- wifi just won't stay connected

So I have tried everything that this forum and others have suggested. Things such as setting proxy to auto, turning celular/wifi off and on in a certain order, resetting networks, restarting router and/or iphone, all that stuff...
My problem is that WiFi recognizes the router but it keeps getting dropped and flipping back to 3G. Sometimes it will stay connected for a few minutes.
I note that some apps that come with ios will start a wifi connection such as safari and mail but other apps that don't come with ios won't start wifi when brought up.
My rMBP connects fine to the same router in our office as does all other hand helds here (android and iphones not yet updated to ios6).
Is WiFi just plain messed up in this release? There seems to be a real inconsitancey as to how this dumb thing wants to behave...
I'm at a point where I'm thinking that a restore via itunes may solve some problems. I did initialy get the "can't log on / page not found" problem last night after the update. I'm wondering if that got something stuck in there that is preventing things from working.
Is anyone experiencing problems as I have described above still? Did a restore of the phone happen to work for you if you tried that?
Thanks,
C

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