Laptop Loses Air Port Signal

My MacBook Pro occasionally loses the signal from my airport express (I live in a small apartment so distance is not the issue). When trying to reconnect to my network I get a time out error, but if I turn airport off on my laptop, restart, and turn airport back on, my macbook can see my network without any problem. Any ideas?

I have virtually the identical problem - when I wake my machine from sleep, it often cannot reconnect to the wireless network (a Belkin wireless router at home and ... some variety of unknown wireless routers at school). At home, manually re-entering the network name (we don't broadcast our SSID) and password works; at school I have to reboot to get wireless access back.
I'm running 10.5.7.

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