OS 10.6 Airport incompatible with Sky routers

Hi guys,
this is my first post and also my first month "going mac" as a PC user I always wanted the new stuff even if it was a major step back in some cases...cough*VISTA*cough
anyway i got snow leopard on its release day pretty much (my mac had been working perfect) and once i upgraded airport was being completely sketchy, i can only assume they have not added the support for some back end routers...eg Sky routers (the ones you get with sky broadband)
in the mean time i downgraded back to OS 10.5, and a word of warning: time machine wont be able to recover any backups you made in 10.6 back to 10.5! so you'll need to archive and install if you want to do it

I am using Sky and had some problems with the wireless, to be clear I always use a wired connection but I like to make sure nothing is broken after upgrades. After the upgrade I switched on the wireless on the router and it would not connect. I tried to connect to a Linksys WAG54GS and although there was no internet (not compatible with Sky) the wireless connected and was solid.
The Sky router is a Sagem, not sure which model but I have had Sky since June (and its been good)
So I dumped the file 'com.apple.airport.preferences.plist' onto the desktop, turned off the auto channel setting on the router and made it ch 6, it now works great, I am using it now. Its using WPA-PSK, the router does not seem to have a WPA2 option.
Don't know if this will help but it is working now for me.
regards

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