MacBook (Early 2006) Wifi Issue Running on OSX 10.6.8

I have a MacBook (Early 2006) upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard. I began to notice that sometimes the Wifi connection would stop function properly. There would be no internet connectivity and won't dectect any Airport Extremes or Express from the Airport Utility. And this happens quite often. However, the Wifi icon in the taskbar shows that the connection is intact and no errors is indicated!
It's quite frustrating since it's an intermittent issue.
The following actions seems to help a little but the issue persists:
Jumping between different websites
Wait a while
Disconnecting and then connecting to the same Wifi connection
The methods I've tried and failed to fix the issue so far:
Changing the Wifi channels
Resetting the SMC (System Management Controller)
Resetting the PRAM and NVRAM
I'm using the Airport Extreme as the main router and I have several Airport Express that extends the network via Ethernet cable.
Your help is appreciated and thanks in advance!

Anyone?

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