Preventing wifi access to specific routers

Is there a way to prevent the iPod touch from connecting to specific routers?
I have a router setup up in my apartment, sometimes I use my wifi from the restaurant below me. The problem is, across the street is a free wifi hotspot (but I can't get into, let alone past their gateway page). While I'm connected to my router I have no problems going online. But when coming out of sleep, the iPod will look for a wifi connection and even though the free one is lower, it'll connect to it.
Even if I could get get into the free wifi's gateway it's easier to just use my own router. So, is their a way to tell the iPod touch to not connect to a specific or ANY router other than the selected router?

I have a 2G and have had this problem with the 2.2 and 2.2.1 firmwares... I don't recall having the issue with 2.1.1 (the firmware that came on it).
If I MANUALLY connect to any network, including the ad-hoc and other network I mentioned at the beginning, I DO get the "Forget this network" option. Because I don't use these other networks, I promptly tell it to forget those few times I was testing it. But it is the times that it "mysteriously" connects to these networks on its own, that I DON'T get the option. And that infuriates me!!!
Last night, I reset ALL the options on the iPod (without deleting actual media). Yet, today as I sat down in the restaurant below my apartment, the iPod disconnected from my router and connected to the ad-hoc. And again, without giving me the option to forget it. All this despite the fact that I still get a consistently stronger signal from my router than the ad-hoc.
I am wondering, as I mentioned earlier, if the ad-hoc is connecting TO me. I admit I had connected to it once when I got the iPod to see what would happen, but I didn't expect it to constantly connect afterwards.

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