My wife fixed the Lion Internet connectivity Problem!!

This story kills me. I upgraded to lion on our two MBP. Mine worked great. My wife had the problem where, upon waking, the MBP was still connected to the wifi (airport express) BUT she had no connectivity to the internet.
I researched the heck out of this and tried everything.
I got on Apple care and we tried another 30min worth of stuff. Eventually they said bring it to a genius bar.   I almost thought I had it when I reset everything to factory default on the airport. It worked a few times but then went back to the same problem.
Last night my wife popped out a cd in here machine.   She asked if I had put it there. I had about a week ago.   Not long after that he MBP problem went away.   Well there is no way a CD in the laptop is going to affect internet connectivity.....so I assumed that my airport reset finally did the trick.
But.... this AM I noticed in the Apple support area that someone else noticed that when they pulled a cd out.....things worked.
This is ridiculous....
So I put the cd back in here computer....the problem is back!!... pulled it out....problem gone!
Went to my computer which never had a problem....put CD in....now I have a problem.....pulled it out....no problem (note that you do have to cycle the wireless one time only after you have the problem.... after that sleep...wake....restart....you name it it worked.   The CD is a blank CD by the way.
So its crazy but my wife, who had problems with my tv remote,   fixed the problem!!

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I know that there is a 25+ page trail of questions on this. I think I looked at every one but nothing worked. I called apple care. I got help fast. We tried about 30 min worth of stuff. They finally said bring it to a genius bar.   I did not want to go there. So I kept playing with it. But first my problem:
I have 2 iphones, an ipad, and 2 macbook pros connected to an airport express.   All working very happily together. Then I upgraded to lion on the two MBP's. One of them continues to work. The other, while it seems to connect to the airport will not connect to the internet on any browser or email software after it wakes from a sleep. Cycling the wifi on the MBP fixes it till it goes to sleep.
So I was beating my brains over this.   Then I thought...hey.... I can see my nieghbors wifi on a linksys router. It works....I am on....go to sleep...wake...still works. Hmmmmmm.
So it dawned on me that the problem was something stored in the airport.   I did a factor reset. Pull the power, depress the reset button, put the power back on, release the reset after 6 secs.   I then used my keychain utility, on the MBP, to eliminate any previous passwords for the router (not sure if that was needed).   I used airport utility to reconfigure the airport. I used all my old names and passwords so I did not have to change the other devices.
It WORKED!!!!
I am not sure if this will work with other wireless routers but it might.
Message was edited by: bob Keenan
I spoke too soon...problem returned after closing laptop for a while.

Hi Bob
Just a thought for you. It will be interesting to see if it works. I have an MBP which upgraded fine. My iMac 27 initially showed the wake from sleep problem. Both go through the same router so that should not be the problem - logically. All I have done with the iMac was to repair permissions - probably three times and to re-start after. The iMac is now fine - apart from a couple of other unrelated problems, which again, did not appear with the MBP.
Personally, if I have to start doing things in Terminal it is not my problem - I spent too long with DOS and Edlin to go back to that!
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TY

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