Macbook Pro, Windows xp, Airpot Extreme, and Internet...

This may have been touched on in this forum but I still cannot make things work (semi-newbie). MBP 2.33 15", the vendor installed Windows XP, and there is not a problem connecting from the Mac side to my Airport extreme wirelessly. The Windows side, however, does not now, and has never been able to connect to the Airport. An Apple care guy took me through the windows set up and told me my 'windows wireless drivers' were not installed. Does this sound true? Do I try (gulp) to uninstall windows xp and reinstall from the cd? Do I track down a MS techie and hand the laptop and xp disc over to him to install? Will this fix the problem? Any advice from those who know is appreciated...farmdoc
Macbook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

If you open the Airport Admin Utility and configure your base station you will see a "Change Wireless Secirity…" button. Click on it and you will see what method you're using. While the Wireless security field states what method you're using it's won't state whether you're additionally allowing both WPA and WPA2 so you need to confirm it.

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