Iphone keeps forgetting wifi wep key

last Thursday  I took mi  iphone 4s to  apple store otay ranch San diego CA  my wifi was  greyed out  & said  no  wiffi   what  they  did  is they  restore  my 
Iphone  & updated iOS5.1.1  thw  wifi is  working again  now   My iphone keeps forgetting my home and work wifi wep key. I can connect to it and its fine and
then i will put the phone down and leave it say 20 mins or even a couple of days and in that time it would have forgotten the wep key and i have to go through the
whole process again of putting in the wep key. Its only been happening in the last week. I've only had the iphone 3 months and wondering why its doing this
now. Its picking up networks fine and also conecting to them ok, its just the fact that it forgets the wep key this so anoying . Any help on this would be really
appreciated
Thank you.

There are a couple of threads on this issue.  I did a search on "forgot wep key".  I'd take a look at this one to get some ideas
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18443331#18443331

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