No wireless connections after upgrading to leopard!

Lost all wireless connection after upgrading to 10.5 osx. Getting frustrated with the upgrade after spending two hours on the phone with apple tech and was told that it was a third party issue! Able to access wireless with security turned off, but once I set sec password (WAP) no connection. What is strange is that I can receive and send email but no browser. All other Mac's/PC's connect fine. Other mac's have not been upgrade! Does anyone have any answers???

see my post here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1244216&tstart=0
it might help you.

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