Macs forget wireless login password

I installed a Time Capsule last night for some friends. They have an iMac, 3 Macbooks, and a Canon wireless printer. They previously had an old Netgear router, so I pulled the Netgear and gave the Time Capsule the same SSID and WPA password. Everything seemed to work, their computers could back up, and even the printer worked. I was proud that I'd replaced their router without having to do anything to any of their other hardware.
Today, I got a frantic call saying that the network was down. Their DSL modem was alive, and the light on the Time Machine was green, but they had no wireless connection on 2 of their computers (the other two weren't home). They could see their network in the Airport drop-down menu, but when they tried to select it, they'd get "Connection timed out."
I suggested that they unplug the Time Capsule and let it reboot. After it came up, their Macs stil didn't connect automatically. However, if they clicked on their network, they were prompted for their network password, and they could successfully connect.
They've been using their old Netgear router for a couple of years without this problem. I don't think that the Canon printer had a problem reconnecting (at least they didn't mention it). They're still running Leopard. One of the two machines is fully patched, and the other isn't, but I did install the latest Airport update on it when I connected it to the Time Capsule yesterday.
This one has me scratching my head. I have an Airport Extreme myself, and have never had a problem with it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

so I pulled the Netgear and gave the Time Capsule the same SSID and WPA password.
This is likely confusing the computers as they already had this information stored to connect to the Netgear router. When the computers tried to connect, they were looking for the Netgear network which was no longer there.
Suggest that you change the SSID at least, to setup new connections on the Macs, not in conflict with other older settings.
You'll also need to set the new SSID as the first connection that each Mac will look for first when searching for a wireless network. Post back if you are not sure on how to do this.

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