Mac Mini Losing Wireless - Possible Remote Desktop Issue?

For months I've been using a Mac Mini (1.66 GHz Core Duo, 1Gb Ram, OS 10.4.8) as my wireless access point. I mainly connect to it using my Titanium Powerbook (667 mhz G4, 1Gb Ram, OS 10.4.8) and have had no connection problems. Friends and co-workers also connect without issue. Recently I upgraded to a MacBook Pro (Core Duo 2GHz, 512 MB Ram, OS 10.4.8). After the Migration Assistant was finished transferring my info from the Titanium, I connected to the Mini via Airport and started up Apple Remote Desktop on the MacBook Pro. I was prompted by Remote Desktop to update the client software on the Mini and did so (I don't remember the exact wording of the message, I just clicked on the default ). The 'upgrade' happened wirelessly, with the Administrator on the Macbook Pro uploading a package to the Mini. Immediately thereafter, I lost wireless connectivity with the Mini. When I went to check the Sharing preferences on the Mini, the Sharing preference pane had disappeared. After restarting both machines with no luck, I re-installed the Sharing pane on the Mini using Pacifist. Now, the Sharing preferences have returned, but when I turn on Internet Sharing, I am able to connect, but I loose the wireless connection after about 10 or 15 minutes. The connection just hangs, and although the network (named 'Mini') still appears in the Airport dropdown menu, if I manually disconnect and re-connect, I get the message 'There was an error joining the network "Mini" .' If I stop internet sharing on the Mini and restart it again, I can again connect with no problem, until the connection hangs, and so on. I am left to assume that Remote Desktop as somehow affected the wireless sharing but can't fix it. I have repaired permissions, zapped the pRam, and re-installed the client software. Any ideas?
Mac Mini 1.66 GHz Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I have a laptop with AirRadar and other stumblers, I have a Linksys WET54G bridge which has a "site survey" feature, and on the iPhone I used eWiFi. Everything shows I'm on a clear channel and the signal is strong at the mini's location. (The WET54G is my temp solution to get the mini working, cannibalized from my main computer). The router is in the next room (approx 25' away), and other devices in the same room as the mini can see the router. I've moved the mini several feet with no improvement.
Bottom line, I'm pretty confident that interference or dead zone are not issues.
I have 3 users on the mini, and all experience the problem, but I will try a new user. Thanks for the suggestion.
I Googled some articles that suggested resetting PRAM, the PMU, and/or the System Management Controller (SMC). I haven't had a chance to try this yet, but will post results tonight.

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This may be more of a PC question, but I'm trying to connect my PC laptop to my mac mini.
I turned on internet sharing on the Mini.
I can see my Airport wireless network on the PC, it says I'm connected.
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Anonymous UUID: 0324BA3D-2238-F9DA-88F3-7A5EABC15FB3
Fri Feb 13 16:20:59 2015
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8020bc1694): "launchd died\nState at Last Exception:\n\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2782.10.72/bsd/kern/kern_exit.c:361
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff812aa73e50 : 0xffffff802072fe41
0xffffff812aa73ed0 : 0xffffff8020bc1694
0xffffff812aa73f40 : 0xffffff8020bc135c
0xffffff812aa73f50 : 0xffffff8020c4b386
0xffffff812aa73fb0 : 0xffffff8020836e86
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: launchd
Mac OS version:
14C109
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 14.1.0: Mon Dec 22 23:10:38 PST 2014; root:xnu-2782.10.72~2/RELEASE_X86_64
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USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfd100000 / 2
USB Device: PTZ-930, 0x056a (WACOM Co., Ltd.), 0x00b2, 0xfd130000 / 4
USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0xfd110000 / 3
FireWire Device: OXFORD IDE Device 1, EZ QUEST, 800mbit_speed
FireWire Device: OXFORD IDE Device 1, EZ QUEST, 800mbit_speed

thanks the replies. OWC sold me the kit, cable etc based on the Macmini's specs. I talked with support and the drive I installed should work with no issues.
They did have me reset the PRAM which did. They also told me I might need to install Yosemite 'several times before is sticks' - whatever that means. lol.
Anyway I zapped the PRAM. So far no mysterious restarts with the drive being unrecognized.
One thing I didn't mention though...
MacMini is in a backyard home office (about a 100 feet away with buried CAT6 cable connecting it to the network). I was using Screen Share from my MBP reinstall all my work software. Every crash occurred while using screenshare. I never had any crashes when I was actually sitting at the computer.
I don't know if that has anything to do with it - but I haven't used ScreenShare for any length of time to control the Mac mini since the pram zap. Figured I'll use the computer for a week or so and see how stable it is and then try using screenshare again and see if the behavior repeats itself.
Meanwhile I'll keep my fingers crossed.
I'm just suspect that it was a PRAM issue. But I'm a layman.

Mac Mini - Server running Lion - Network related issues

I have a mac mini running Lion. I am having a few issues that did not exist prior to an upgrade. But for the life of me, I can't figure it out.
The problems I'm having are as follows:
1. screen sharing times out. It works, then stops after a while. If I go in and uncheck, then recheck remote management, it'll work again, but only for a while.
2. neither the air port or the hardwired ethernet will obtain an ip via DHCP. Works fine once I put in a static, but will never obtain a dynamic address.
3. Homesharing on Itunes will turn off after a while, same as the screen sharing does..
4. Time Capsule is no longer found by the Mac Mini. My macbook pro see it no problem. It also keeps the itunes homeshare and can get DHCP addresses fine, so I know it's not a router issue that is causing the issues on the mac mini.
Thanks
James

well to be honest I wanted a server to run more aspects of what I do privately (rather tahn at work) rather than use hosted accounts from disparate hosted providers on line. In partcular wanted a mail server to handle multiple mail domains, wiki server, web sever as per mail server and I was interested in what they would provide for iphone ipad etc as I have a few that I wanted to link to a server rather than individual macs and pcs
I also thought that Apple might bring their abilities to creating a great UI for essentially linux operating systems to a server os.
from initial views though it might have been easier (cheaper) to go to ubuntu and just their server version of linux. Anyway I will persist - I will read through the stuff you guys have linked me to - colinsolutions appears to have aimed me at some useful stuff. Looks like a bigger "project" than i imagined - but I havent looked at UNIX since 1986 so if I have to get into the command line it wont kill me I am sure.
thanks for the input - if anyone else can suggets good resources that would be appreciated.
ps simon - i found that the name for the server with the .local extension is visibile from the mac via finder and allows me to connect to the shared folder. so my server is sdhome - the shared resource is sdhome.local ... not sure if this helps but...

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I have an existing wireless network that works fine with an iBook G3. I just hooked up my Mac Mini and it can see the network, but it can't connect. The menu of available networks on the Mac Mini is also much more limited than that of the iBook. Is there an interference issue? If yes, why does the iBook working?
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I just picked up a new Mac mini, and a new Apple wireless keyboard. I'm setting up the mini for the first time and i can't complete the setup because the new wireless keyboard doesn't seem to be recognized during the initial mini setup process. Should it be?
I can use the mouse to get me to the point where it requires me to setup an account, but without the keyboard I'm unable to do so.
Is this normal? I don't have a USB keyboard or I would have just plugged it in and finished. I should be able to do this with the new wireless keyboard, right?

I had the same problem with my wife's pre 2009 Intel Mini, had to use a USB KB to do a fresh install of SL, because the BT KB wasn't picked up.
Then on my early 2009 Mini I updated it from L to SL and after SL SW update found several updates, including a bluetooth update. When it came to applying the BT update, it said turn off BT, then proceed. Next came the need for me to enter my password to proceed, but that wasn't possible as the BT KB no longer responded. Fortunately I have a USB KB handy which did the trick.
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