New (Early 2009) 17" MBP WiFi Issues So Far?

I have owned one of these beauties for three days now. Thus far, I have had to disable and re-enable WiFi on exactly as many occasions. I have no idea why - I'm ~12 ft. away from the closet where my Cisco 877 router (dual radios/antennas) resides and signal strength absolutely is not in question.
Also, I run a WiFi monitoring app on my Vista box and after approx five minutes I've typically picked up snippets from at least a dozen networks (apparently even the old fogies in my neighborhood are online!). I've tried a couple of different WiFi monitoring apps on OS X and the only networks detected are my own and the immediately adjacent neighbor's network. So I infer that reception is nowhere near as good in this aluminum case as compared to a typical plastic case. This bums me out for several reasons, one of them being that I have one neighbor in particular whose AP constantly jumps around and so I constantly have to manually move my own AP to a new channel to get away from them. It ***** but it works. But with the MBP, I can't seem to pick up their signal so I can't tell what freq their on (without kicking of the Vista box, which is not something I want to have to do every time I suspect interference).
So I'm just opening up this thread for discussion. Hopefully some others with the new 17" will share their experiences in the coming days or even weeks...
Thanks all,
Scott

My only issue at this point seems to be that following a reboot, I have to manually disable and re-enable the WiFi NIC to get joined into my home network (about 80% of the time, anyway). It frustrates me to no end when I have to do things manually to get a machine up and running - it's one of the reasons I finally left Microsoft in the dust. But I have not experienced some of the other early flakiness that was the catalyst for this thread.
Incidentally, the reception as compared to a non-aluminum case is perfectly obvious. Too bad they didn't find a way to address this in the design. Hopefully in future revisions they will...

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