Linksys WUSB54g router

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I gave my mother my old iMac 800 with an airport extreme card. I had previously installed a new hardrive, reinstalled Tiger (and updated through 10.4.8), AND I tested at home for over a month on an Airport network prior to Thanksgiving. The iMac seemed to have a new lease on life.
I get to her house, airport fires up, recognizes the wireless network, and I'm having her surf the 'Net. She was impressed with the mac which is older than my sister's Windows pc running XP. The next day, my sister and my brother in-law asked me to fix their WinPC to get it on the 'net wirelessly. I powered down the DSL device, and the Linksys router. I finally got them on the 'net. However, my mom's iMac was belly up, internet-wise. I spent a couple of hours trying to figure it out, but I had to go home.
Yesterday 12/23, I brought an ethernet cable (as the Linksys router is next to the iMac). After plugging the cable into the iMac and the router, I was up and surfing. It was unbelievable how easy it was. However, today, no such luck the iMac is not able to get on the 'net despite:
1) my previous success(es)
2) a green light in the network panel stating that I'm connected to the internet via built-in ethernet (I also had this condition with the airport card)
I've searched through these posts as well as Linksys fora, and tried several suggestings (powering all devices down, trashing preferences, etc.)without success (this post comes from my sister's PC which I got connected).
I opened up the Linksys control panel on my sister's PC, and the router id was radically different than the router ID the iMac had when it was running yesterday; this is the one thing that has really stood out.
The other thing that may be happening is that there are about five or six other wireless networks (several WRT from linksys I believe) which iStumbler revealed to me when troubleshooting the wireless problems during Thanksgiving. I'm wondering if the iMac is getting the IP address from one of those networks...
I hope this issue sounds familiar enough to someone to get me pointed in the right direction.
Thanks, Felipe

I am having a similar problem with my WUSB54GC adapter connecting to my WRT54G router 100 feet away with only a single stud wall in between.  Sometimes the computer connects automatically and sometimes I have to restart windows or use the repair connection wizard to get the computer to connect.  Using Windows XP and Mixed infrastructure network with SSID broadcasting disabled.
Message Edited by HOOfan_1 on 05-29-200709:03 PM

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