Lost wireless connection after installing Snow Leopard combo update.

Hi everybody. I installed Snow Leopard on my father-in-law's Mac Mini (one year old) over Christmas, as a gift. The upgrade went fine. Everything worked until I performed a SW update. It downloaded a mammoth 500+ MB combo update (wirelessly), installed it, and boom. No wireless.
His network has no security; it is open. The Mac could see/find the network, but timed-out when connecting. Connection Doctor and Network Diagnostics; all red lights. His Dell and my iPod Touch had no problem connecting. I tried switching user accounts, turning Airport ON/OFF, trashing Locations and using Automatic, inactivating interfaces, disabling firewall, restarting, PRAM reset, and probably some other things I can't recall.
I couldn't leave him without any Internet, and I didn't have a patch cable to try, so I restored him to 10.5 using Time Machine. His wireless went back to normal and is working fine. So he has my Christmas gift, but he can't use it.
I have seen some related experiences in this forum, but not quite the same. Anything I try will now need to be done remotely over iChat Screen Sharing, as he is 190 miles away. Thank you for any assistance.

Problem Solved..sort of. I was able to restore full connectivity by disabling the WEP encryption of the WIFI. This is very strange to me, prior to getting the ATV, WIFI was only rurned on for brief periods to allow my laptop to connect or when using a Sondigo wireless music bridge (great product BTW.) After enabling WEP I had no problems in connecting either the ATV or the Sondigo unit to the WIFI, there was however a problem with my laptop in that it showed a very solid connect to the WEP enabled network but I could not browse the internet. FWIW my router is a Linksys WRT54GX. Hopes this helps someone else

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