MacBook Pro and my home network - FAIL

Hello...and HELP
I have a MacBook Pro whose network access has slowly deteriorated over the last few weeks so as to be completely unusable, and I'm at a loss as to the solution
I have a Netgear Router WPN824x2 and a number of Tivo's, iPhones, and windows machines successfully running off the wifi without incident. However, our MacBook Pro, which also used to automatically connect and get a relatively good signal had begun dropping connections or not connecting at all. Sometimes it wouldn't even spot the SSID for the network (or the networks of the adjoining apartments, which I used to regularly see as well). For the last couple of weeks, I have had to walk the laptop to within a couple feet of the router to get any signal at all. Again, other computers moving to the exact same spot had no issues.
For most of this time I had been running WEP security. I thought the problem may be someone poaching bandwidth or ports from my router, so I changed my security to WPA2. Again, I changed all the other devices in my house to the new password and had no problem connecting, and thought I had (briefly) solved the problem with the MacBook, too. Unfortunately that's not the case.
I'm now getting a number of problems with my connection, and have been cycling through different issues trying to troubleshoot. when I try to connect to my home network I get one of the following messages (they rotate)
1) "the network you are trying to connect to requires a WEP password" - this is inaccurate as I'm now running WPA2
2) "The network you are trying to connect to requires a WPA password" (good) but when the correct password is entered I get either "invalid password" or "network timeout"
I've deleted keychain entries, tried to connect in network diagnostics and airport utilities, and pretty much anything else I can think of, but the problems are repeating.
Can anyone help with this? Please advise!

OK, this is now REALLY ******* me off. I bought a new dual-band router in hopes that the router was the issue. For about two days I was able to log into the 5 mhz band and thought I'd gotten around the problem. Now all the old problems are back, and this time it won't even detect the 5 mhz band (conveniently renamed so I could tell it from the other band). And it's STILL asking for WEP passwords on WPA security.
Am I to assume at this point that apple airport just *****? I'm ready to give up on my Mac altogether over this...

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