Macbook will not automaicaly connect to wireless on restart

Whenever i restart my computer, or turn it off/on it will not automatically reconnect to my wireless internet connection. I end up having to click on the airport icon in the menu bar, manualy select the wireless network, and then re enter the password EVERY time i start the computer. This is such an annoying problem. I have done the following so far to try and fix the issue.......
1. Made sure that when i enter the password the "store password in keychain" option is selected.
2. Changed the default wareless network to the prefered networks setting with my connection at the top of the list.
3. Deleted my network from the networks list, deleted kechain entry for network and then re entered all information.
4. Various other combinations of the above 3.
This is a really annoying problem. It all works fine on my brother machine!! Please help me before my 10 hour old macbook is sent sailing out of my bedroom window to join the pc it replaced. :P
Thanks guys!

I had tried that earlier and it didnt work for me, or atleast i think i did exactally what your post said. Thing is before i read your post i had already taken the plunge and re installed osx lol. That means there is a possibility that when i did what i thought was the same process as you describe (before i reinstalled os x) i may have missed out one of the check boxes etc. Reinstalling os x worked for me, but to anyone else reading it, try the above instructions first! Sounds alot easire than a full reinstall!
thanks for the replies!

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