Retrieving network password in Keychain Access?

I just upgraded to Snow Leopard and moved.
I used to have the password for the new network stored on my Keychain Access. Now, however, when I try to log on, I'm asked for the password.
I went to look for the password in Keychain Access, and there is a password listed, but it's a long string of lower case letters and numbers -- it looks like some sort of code, rather than the original password.
Is there any way I can translate that long string into the real password? Or any way I can restore the old password?
Thanks for any help.

Susan, you will probably by now have done what you said you were to do and set the airport from scratch. Nevertheless there is no harm in setting up the router his sister left. No need to worry about the keychain for this. Clear, that is "reset' to factory defaults as I believe Direwolf was saying. Then start again. Reset by using the button on the back of the router. You then use the default password and admin username (probably on the soleplate of the router). Download user manual from web if need be.
When I look in keychain for wireless passwords, I see plain text, but I use plain text WPA2 passwords, poetry in lower case no spaces no punctuation and 62 characters long. His sister may have set a hexadecimal password. Someone I know keeps changing her ISP (in Spain). I keep re setting the collection of routers she gets from the ISPs with the same settings so she has four 'plug and play' routers in case one fails.

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