Just can't get airport set up

I have a MBP and had no problems connecting to Airport set up on my husband's iMac. I had a "crash" of some of my applications by "Hazel"-Apple Genius used Time Machine to restore (think he did erase and restore of everything) while putting in new optic drive. I could not get on Airport when I got home, we created a new network that worked for a few hours I guess, and now just cannot get it set back up.
iMac sets up "computer to computer" and MBP can't find it.
iMac cannot find the base station and it is sitting right behind it, as always, with the Ethernet router.
base station light is green-blinked amber in the beginning
have "re-set" the base station couple of times
have turned everything off-disconnected ethernet & base station and re-started
could this have anything to do with Time Capsule-which I don't think I use (iMac is still on Tiger)
one thing the AirPort ID on iMac is correct # and on MBP it is different-has shown the same as the ethernet ID and no way to change it on MBP
I think this is all of info-please help, & I appreciate it.
golden2

Don't know but I think my problem was that I never searched for and entered in my code for my airport on the new mac...doesn't really matter I hooked it up with USB but and works fine...but I think my wireless problem with the new imac and the Photosmart was that I did not have my airport set up yet with the new mac.

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