My Ibook cant connect to my home network

I have an ibook G4. In my new flat my landlord has wireless internet (belkin router). There are four other computers in the house that connect just fine - they are not apples. my apple has been able to connect to the internet without any problems at my friends house who has WPA-PSK security and also many places around the world. I have moved into my new flat and my laptop can see the network - but when I try to connect using the password it keeps coming up with the message "error in joining the network XXXXX" this is very frustrating as I have dowloaded all the latest software and have been advised that my laptop is able to support WPA-PSK security with AES encyrption and yet I cannot for the life of me connect to this particular router. Can anyone help me? I just need to know what to do - Apple have advised that I need to change something on my security settings but I dont know how. It also works when my landlord takes off all the security from his router, but obviously he cannot do this all the time.
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Go to this post and the Mac video should help with getting the 1102 installed and connected to a wireless network.
To see exactly what is in the video, I highly recommend uninstalling any software that is insalled for this printer.
I know you mentioned starting over from the beginning once, but just make sure that there is nothing for this printer at all.
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