Mac mini won't connect to internet

I brought a new mini mac over Christmas and its been great. Until recently I decides not to connect to the Internet. I have a Bt Home hub that several apple products connect to without an issue. But my mac mini doesn't connect so easily if at all.
I find the network on the wifi search, click to connect and it keeps telling me the Password is wrong, even though its been connected before and all my other devices use it.
What can i do?
Thanks in advance.
Sam

Power off and then back on the router
Create another network loctation and see if that resolves the problem
http://macs.about.com/od/networking/qt/networklocation.htm

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