IPhone 5 WIFI works half a day with any router it hasn't seen, then stops completely.

I was syncing some music through WIFI over my phone about a week ago and the WIFI cut out about halfway through syncing about 10 albums.  The list of networks shows the network, with full bars (everything I've done to attempt to fix it has been done within 5 feet of the router), and when you attempt to click Join, it either spins the cogwheel for 30 seconds or gives you the unable to join network pop-up. 
I have:
Reset the iPhone
Reset the router
Reset the iPhone's network settings
Restored the iPhone from a backup
Restored the iPhone to factory defaults
Tried the router in different security settings, WEP, WPA, WPA2, and security completely disabled
Changed the channel on the router
Tried a few different router firmwares, including the latest
Switched to another Linksys WRT54G that I own and it wouldn't work either.
Switched from a Linksys WRT54G to a Netgear router.  It worked great with the Netgear for about half a day and upon waking up this morning, the problem is back and identical.  I've tried everything on this router that I did on the previous Linksys and it is still broken.
Going to run into the Apple store today and see what they say.  Everything's pointing to the phone.  Not sure if the latest firmware has flummoxed the WIFI, or if my launch iPhone's WIFI has cut out.  I'm just scared because it will join new networks for a short while before it quits and when they test it, it'll probably pickup their network.  Think I'm going to take my router into the store with me, but I'm unsure how much actual router knowledge their support will have.  Wish me luck!

If the problem is with every wi-fi network the iPhone has access to and connects with after restoring the iPhone with iTunes as a new iPhone or not from the backup, the iPhone has a hardware problem with the wireless card or with something else.

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