MacBook can't log in to AT&T Uverse wireless WPA network

I'm unable to log in to my friend's wireless at her house. She has AT&T Uverse... security is "WPA Personal" and I've changed that setting manually... have tried the trick of putting "$" in front of the password (tried it with and without that). Nothing seems to work. I've double checked and we're hitting the correct "2WIRExxx" network. Any ideas?

I find it very puzzling too Linc, especially as it's not consistent.
The switcher swapping, sadly made no differnence.
Given that the routing works fine in reverse (SL accessing Lion) and not when the lion is accessing common shared areas like a drop box, internet, or the network shared drive. I'm not convinced it is switcher delay. Worth a try though
It seems to be delayed only when trying to connect as a registered administrator on the SL macs.
@Shootist
There is only one account per mac. The admin with it's password. Have tried creating another admin user on one SL Mac but this did not help.
To connect macs we have been using the "connect as" and signing in as a "registerred user" (Then entering the admin login details of the mac you are accessing) 
We are presented by a list of drives on that device. Selecting one in finder mounts it for access from the external mac with full read write access.
We are not specifically setting up shared folders, permissions or drives on either machine. But logging in as the remote macs admin.
This has provided great access between machines until now.

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