Mac OS X Software Update Wiped out my Wireless!

Hello everyone- Perhaps someone can help me. I currently connect my G4 tower to the internet via a Sonnet Aria Extreme PCI card, to my Linksys Wireless G. In addition, I also connect my Powerbook G4 via its own built in Airport card. All has been great until 2 days ago, when I installed the update for OS X 10.4.8 The laptop still connects fine, but now the tower cannot connect. When I click on the Airport logo on the top bar (now grey, not black), it shows the option to join "linksys" as always, but now I get "There was an error joinging the Airport network linksys". If I launch Safari and open Network Diagnostics, and follow the prompts, it asks for the WEP password for the linksys network. We never had or assigned a password. Anyone have any suggestions? I have repaired my permissions after the update (not sure if that matters), but thats about the limit of my knowledge with this stuff. I'm sorry if I left out any important or key details. Any help would be great. Thanks a million guys!

It looks like the Software Update Helper is crashing. I've logged a bug at http://radar.apple.com: 7408619.

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