MBP won't remember to connect to TC

Hello all,
I just set up my TimeCapsule 1TB over the past weekend. It seems to be working fine except for the following:
It is at my home. Whenever I have come home from work and started my MBP, it will not connect to my home network. TC is acting as the router for my cable modem. In network preferences, my home network shows up, but will not connect.
Every time I get home, I have to go to the Airport menu, choose "Join Other Network.." and manually reenter the SSID and password. After that, I'm connected.
This is VERY annoying, especially since this never happened with my old Netgear router, nor does it happen with any other wireless network I connect to.
Does anyone out there know a solution to this problem? Thanks in advance for reading this and any ideas.
Tony

I'm having the same problem. Except my MBP has no problem remembering the Time Capsule for internet connection, but doesn't for Time Machine backups.
Every time I turn on my computer, if I try to open Time Machine it says that the backup disc can't be found. I then go to Time Machine settings in system preferences and click "change disk" although the Time Capsule is correctly listed, re-enter my password and it all seems to work.
Why won't it do it automatically? I thought that was the beauty of what's turning out to be an overpriced paperweight???
I agree -- very annoying.

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