Please help with WPA (I know I'm close)

Man, I am completely stumped here, so here goes.
My wireless device (which has a rt2870 chip) has so far proven itself perfectly capable of connecting to my wireless network....except with WPA. I know for sure that the device itself supports wpa because wpa works under windows and, well, the driver's source code has wpa implementation.
I have tried using the network profile configured to use wpa as follows
CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE=ra0
SCAN="no"
ESSID="aptd"
SECURITY="wpa"
Key="mykeythatiwillnottellyou"
IP="dhcp"
TIMEOUT=20
and it times out
In addition, I have also tried configuring that profile to use wpa_supplicant
Here is /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ap_scan=0
network={
mode=0
ssid="aptd"
scan_ssid=0
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
auth_alg=OPEN
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
#psk="abc"
psk=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
priority=0
and it still times out >_<
So right now I am hoping I can get some help from fellow arch users.
Does anyone have any ideas?
By the way, I have my router set to accept both TKIP and AES so it should allow either encryptions, right? or could that be the root of the problem?

Well, I tried setting TIMEOUT to two minutes (120 seconds) and that didn't help.
By the way, here what the wiki asks
ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:00:32:62
inet addr:192.168.1.131 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::240:5ff:fe00:3262/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:39896 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34881 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:28840853 (27.5 Mb) TX bytes:5295842 (5.0 Mb)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xcf00
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:137 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12316 (12.0 Kb) TX bytes:12316 (12.0 Kb)
ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:54:AD:E1:3A
inet addr:169.254.51.186 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3096 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:640 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:341402 (333.4 Kb) TX bytes:46816 (45.7 Kb)
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
ra0 RT2870 Wireless ESSID:"" Nickname:"RT2870STA"
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.447 GHz Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality=78/100 Signal level:-60 dBm Noise level:-71 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
the profile
CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE=ra0
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wpa"
ESSID="aptd"
KEY="<censored>"
IP="dhcp"
TIMEOUT=120
and lsmod
Module Size Used by
isofs 32036 0
zlib_inflate 18560 1 isofs
udf 82212 0
rt2870sta 489556 0
nvidia 7816704 24
agpgart 28244 1 nvidia
vmix 12468 3
ossusb 60680 3
envy24ht 82544 5
osscore 544920 7 vmix,ossusb,envy24ht
ipv6 256196 14
psmouse 36880 0
serio_raw 5508 0
usb_storage 84672 0
i2c_i801 9232 0
i2c_core 19348 2 nvidia,i2c_i801
sg 27188 0
joydev 10048 0
dcdbas 7200 0
evdev 9472 3
thermal 15260 0
processor 32096 1 thermal
fan 4356 0
button 6416 0
battery 10372 0
ac 4484 0
fuse 42524 12
cpufreq_userspace 3412 0
cpufreq_ondemand 7180 1
cpufreq_conservative 6664 0
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
p4_clockmod 4628 1
speedstep_lib 4740 1 p4_clockmod
freq_table 4112 2 cpufreq_ondemand,p4_clockmod
vboxdrv 57264 0
8139too 22784 0
mii 4992 1 8139too
rtc_cmos 9120 0
rtc_core 15516 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 2944 1 rtc_core
ext3 123912 1
jbd 44052 1 ext3
mbcache 7172 1 ext3
usbhid 42944 0
hid 39168 1 usbhid
ff_memless 5128 1 usbhid
sd_mod 23320 9
sr_mod 15300 0
cdrom 33952 1 sr_mod
ehci_hcd 33804 0
uhci_hcd 22288 0
usbcore 129776 7 rt2870sta,ossusb,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
ata_piix 17668 7
ata_generic 5636 0
libata 141840 2 ata_piix,ata_generic
scsi_mod 92204 5 usb_storage,sg,sd_mod,sr_mod,libata
dock 7952 1 libata

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