Problems with my Wireless Router since Mac Switch

Ever since my wife and I bought our MacBooks (we have one each) I have been having issues with my Linksys Wireless G Router.
http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-WRT54GS-Wireless-G-Broadband-SpeedBooster/dp/B0001 D3K8A
That is the one I have.
I use WEP encrypted, DCHP auto allocate on IP addresses and both machines are always within 20 feet of the router. However we get dropped connections to the router very often, almost daily, and it usually happens within a few minutes of booting a machine. The only way to restore the connection is to power down the router and restart it. This always works.
I've already tried the following. Changed the router channel from 5 to 7, in case there is interference. Changed the WEP password (it's 128-bit hex) and even tried limiting the DCHP allocations to two machines and adding Mac Addressing.
It could just be a hardware fault, but the previous machines (a PC laptop and an iBook G3) never had this issue. I did a router restart possibly once every 2 or 3 months. Now it's daily. Any advice?

Believe it or not I got the cheapest wireless router in the shop! A Belkin Wireless G router. It was easy to set up, supports all the standards, has great range and hasn't missed a beat since I installed it and it cost $35. All 3 home machines (2 MacBooks and a Windows desktop) all link via it flawlessly.
I nearly went for the base station from Apple, but at $200 it was hard to justify.
Looking around at some forums, the Linksys seems to have issues. I had the version 5. I also updated it to the most recent firmware about 10 days before I had this problem. My MacBook and my Wife's MacBook both disconnected from it the same day. By connecting manually (assigning a manual IP address and giving that address directly to the router) worked until you restarted, but would only work for one machine at a time.
When I saw the 2 MacBook Pro's in the cafe having EXACTLY the same issue, I was convinced it was the router. It had the same firmware version number mine did (ver 1.01)

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