Keychain "show password" issue with Airport

I have 3 Keychain items for Airport Express. Two are in Login & if I select "show password" it asks for my Keychain password (which is also my login password), which I give & it shows me my password. No problem.
The third Airport Keychain item is in System. Following the same procedure, I put in the same password & it rejects it.
For both the Login & System Keychain items I get the same window asking me for my Keychain password, so I can't figure out why my password won't work for the Airport item in System. Any ideas would be appreciated.

I don't know why the airport passwords end up in the System Keychain, or what's the password for the System Keychain, but probably you have the same problem I had: every time I wanted to connect to my Airport network I had to input the password again.
In one ocassion, before entering the password, I clicked the "information" arrow and saw that indeed access to the system.keychain was being requested by some application called system.iUtilserver. I deleted the preference file "user">Library>Preferences>system.iUtils.prefs and now I do not have to input the password every time I connect to the airport. The password still reappears in the System Keychain, however. I also noticed that other accounts in my laptop didn't have this problem. One downside of this situation is that any user of your machine can access the airports covered by the password in the System Keychain, since it's a keychain available to all users.
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