New Hidden Networks

My wife and I have Mac Books running Mac OS X 10.5.8. After some point both of our computers stopped remembering to connect to NEW hidden wifi networks.
If I change the security credentials on our new router to the same settings of a hidden network connection, let's say my in-laws settings, the computers will connect with no problems. But if we try to connect to a new hidden network, the computers will not remember to connect.
How do we fix this problem? We have tried every solution we could find.
I am assuming it has something to do with a Apple update.
Thanks for your help.

WRBL wrote:
Starting yesterday my airport card will not fully connect to our wireless network after the battery died on my powerbook. This is only happening on one of our computers, all others are connecting normally to the the network. My powerbook looks for a network (instead of using the preferred network in preferences), shows our network, I log in, password is accepted, full bars show on airport icon, but no internet connection. In network preferences airport shows green status, IPv4 (set to DHCP) shows address and subnet, nothing for IPv6 (set to Automatic).
I'm guessing that you tried all the suggestions in the second message of this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10695921
In the Network panel of System Preferences, if you select the AirPort connection item, does the IP address look "reasonable" (similar to the other computers)? If you click on the "Advanced" button and select the "TCP/IP" tab, do you see a value for "Subnet Mask" and "Router"? In the "DNS" tab do you see a value in the "DNS Servers" box?
If none of this helps, until you can solve your problem you might want to connect your PowerBook to your AirPort Extreme with an Ethernet cable.

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