Keeps forgetting WEP password

I use WEP as my wife's PC doesn't seem to manage WPA.
Once or twice a week my MacBook forgets the WEP key. When I go to Network Settings and edit the entry for my network the setting says:
Password: none
When I reselect 'WEP password' and check 'Show password' half of the password is missing
So I re-enter it, turn airport on and off and usually I get back on-line. Sometimes it refuses to accept the password and I have to plug in a cable...
After a few days it works again.
(All the time my wife's PC is working fine - and I've tried rebooting the Access Point, a Netgear WGR614v4 latest firmware)
...and the MacBook has all updates including the latest shutdown squashing SMC, and it has happened since that update.
So is this a bug, or wot?
MacBook White 2Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Might be a bug, try this even if it says it's a bit
different from your problem, has worked on some WEP
as well as the stated WPA issue...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304482
Actually, I have done this a few times when I have had the bug (not from following the instructions, it seemed the 'obvious' thing to try to reset things to me). So it must be a good suggestion
It didn't help.
Other than that, I'd run Disk Utility from the CD/DVD
to Repair Disk & Permissions,
then use Keychain
Access to Repair Keychain, or replace that Key.
I use SuperDuper for backups which runs Repair Disk before each cloning. I'll try these suggestions the next time it happens.
Might even be a HW issue such as RAM.
I'm starting to think my MacBook is one big hardware issue
MacBook White 2Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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