Loses Airport Connection when sleeping...doesn't reconnect automatically.

My MBP needs to be reconnected manually to my airport upon reawakening after a mac-nap. My iBook doesn't have this problem. Any suggestions on how to tweak this?

In the Network System Preference (Airport > Airport) try…
1) Changing the "By default, join" preference to "Preferred networks" and then moving your most often used network to the top of the list.
2) In the Options… of the same tab change "If no preferred networks are found" option to "Keep looking for recent networks".

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