OSX will not remember WPA selection

Our wireless network requires 802.1X authentication and is running both WPA and WPA2. I have configured the network and internet connection settings to use WPA because OS X will not request an IP address via DHCP with WPA2 (it will connect and authenticate, but thats all if will do). I managed twice to get the network setting to keep the WPA selection, but OSX keeps switching it back to WPA2. If I had to guess it appears to be detecting the availability of WPA2 and making the switch on its own (even though I do not want it to). I have tried deleting the wireless and internet connection settings, but it makes no difference. Any ideas on how to get around this?

First, setup a new Location in Network just for WPA... sometimes a used Location, especially the Automatic one gets confused with past settings, since it keeps all of them in plista.
If that doesn't work, and you have the settings written down, you might try trashing...
/Users/nnnn/Library/Preferences... the whole Prefs folder there.
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration... the whole SysConfig folder.
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist
Reboot... of course you dont have to trash them, you can just move them to the desktop to drag back if it doesn't work.

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