Password for wireless network not remembered

I am stuck with the following situation. I have a wireless network overhere, which is a 802.1X-type network which consists of a huge number of different base stations connected together, which requires me to login and has TTLS (PAP) type identity control.
When I configure this into the Internet Connect application, with my password, it connects. However, on reboot, the Finder immediately asks for my password. When I look in Internet Connect, it's still there, but when I look in System Prefs, the password is not there (only a blank field). When I enter it, click OK, and check the dialog again, the password is already gone into the wind.
I deleted all entries of the network in all my keychains, reinstalled my system and now I've set the keycahin entry for the network accessible by all programs, but that doesn't help me either. I had a Macbook here not long ago, which didn't suffer from this problem (however, it did not reconnect after sleep/reboot all the time, but never asked me for my password).

Do not check "Remember Networks this computer has joined."
In Advanced>Preferred Networks, enter the name of your Network. This is how I have mine set up and I have not experienced any more problems like yours, although I did in the past. In Preferred Networks, I have redundantly entered the same name twice, just in case it skips off to the second one. Probably not needed, but it's been working fine like that for a long time.
However, since I don't have an Airport Extreme, I don't use Airport Utility. Definitely try rebooting the AE. Might try applying or reapplying the 10.6.8 Combo update.

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