Problems with Airport Card

I move back and forth from school to home, and I've never had a problem with my card before. I recently restored my compuer back to its factory settings, and it was running great with my Airport Express. I came home after moving, and my computer won't read the WPA hooked up in my house. It says I am connected, but won't let me access the internet. I'm not sure why. We tried rebooting the connection, I've looked on my computer, used system preferences and everything. I did notice when I tried to use the Network Setup Assistant, it said the password I used to connect was wrong, but when my computer uses the airport icon at the corner of the screen, it accepts the password. Any ideas on how to fix this?
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

An additional distressing note -- I went back to aforementioned building with the 10.4.5 Powerbook last night. Did a cold boot...and the Airport Express picked up the correct network DHCP info immediately. Roamed between a couple of WAPs, surfed a couple of sites, then sat down and tried to duplicate this feat...by re-booting at least 6 more times. Nada. I once again got factory default IP addresses on each attempted reboot. I changed nothing from the network settings I'd tried last week with this machine nor were any changes made to the network or WAPs. DHCP didn't work last week on several attempts (and reboots), worked ONCE yesterday on the first boot, then nothing again on the subsequent reboots.
Again, I'm stressing that there don't "seem" to be problems with the network or WAPs because Windows clients consistently obtain DHCP and authenticate without issue.
Does anyone have any ideas?

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