Laptop can't find my airport network

I have two windows XP SP2 laptops (both relatively new with internal wireless cards), but only one of them sees the aiport network. Both used to work fine, and I previously had this problem, and back then a reset did the trick. Now it's happened again (same laptop) and resetting isn't fixing it. I can't tell what the problem is, since after resetting, there's no longer a password or any settings that could be wrong. I also disabled all firewalls etc to make sure nothing else is interfering. The strange thing is that both laptops see the same number of networks in range, apart from the airport which only shows up on one laptop. Any ideas what the problem could be? Thanks.

If it helps anyone, I had the same trouble yesterday after an automatic update of the firmware for my airport extreme on my Mac Pro desktop. I brought in my laptop and spent several hours re-setting the modem and router, scanning through these discussion pages for answers, and tried every reset imaginable, soft and hard and everything in between, and nothing would help the airport device to show up in airport utility on either computer.
I finally gave up last night and unplugged the modem and router. This morning I decided to get back into the fight and plugged in the modem, then plugged in the router and turned on the laptop. I went into Airport Utility and, God only knows why, but there was my airport extreme listed as an Apple Base Station on the left side of the window, just as I had been trying to get it to do all day yesterday. I followed the instructions to set it up and created the new network and everything is back to normal again.
Go figure.

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