OSX' constant prodding for passwords driving me crazy

I have an Ibook G4 running OS 10.3.9 (768MB) and am really getting annoyed at the system's constant prodding for my Admin or keychain password. It happens whenever I go on-line, either websurfing or checking email. Even more annoying is that supplying the password doesn't stop the prodding--it continues! Is there anything I can do to stop this? Is this an indication that something is amiss? I've endured this before, and believe I corrected it by turning off the security settings on my Airport Extreme, an unsatisfactory solution.
(I'm almost postive there's a direct relationship between this problem and having active WPA security on AE, as I only recently restored password protection on the Airport, and that's when the problem recurred.)
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I don't the Airport Extreme has anything to do with it. That's part of the network. Once you are connected, that's it. I use WPA/WPA2 Personal on my Airport Extreme Base Station (the new square one), and I don't get such prompts. You could verify this by turning off security on the base station temporarily to see if it stops.
The admin user/password prompt usually pops up when you are trying to install applications or making a change to a non-user part of the System. It's part of security. Since it's popping up constantly, maybe there is something wrong with permissions. If you have not done so recently, run the Repair Permissions routine from Disk Utility.

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