"not-so-secured" network with Airport.

Hello everybody.
(Sorry for my english, i am a belgian user)
As i have no Wi-Fi modem, I recentltly created a secured wi-fi network with my Mac Mini to connect easily my ipod touch and family's computers. I used Airport and "create new network" tool. All works perfectly and i am very happy with this.
The problem is when i reboot the Mac Mini. As soon as Leopard is started, it create a new UNSECURED wifi network, so all the people in my flat can connect my network, access the printers and shared docs ( i didn't protect them to let an acces to all my family and friends that come home)
I have to stop Airport at the boot of MacOS to stop the unsecured network and then create a the usual secured network...
This is a big problem for me and i really would like leopard to remember my network and parameters (password) to have the same wifi network each time i boot up my Mac.
I think that a Mac that create an unsecured network at the startup is a big lack of securit ( or i din't find the correct option???)
Thank a lot for all your help
C.V.

You mean, you enabled Internet sharing in System preferences, Sharing.
Well, I would not be so sure that such a connection is secure, mainly because WEP is the only algorithm available with that kind of network.
That said, I tried it a couple of times and it works very well, but I never used it as a long stand solution. So I cannot say if the behaviour you described it's normal.

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