Setting Airport to use a Specific Access Point

I am in Leopard connecting to a Pronto wireless provider her in Texas. My conections drops about every 20 seconds or so, making it a real pain. After doing some reading and using iStumbler and IPnetmonitor, I found that there where 3 AP in my area with almost the same signal strength. So I moved to the edge of town and was able to have only 1 AP in range and was able to connect with no more dropouts.
The WDS (Wireless Distribution System) in use seems to be what produces the dropouts in leopard, As leopard rescans the waves and finds another AP with the same name and transmitting channel it gets confused on to which one to join making it drop the connections.
So my question is, is there a way to tell leopard to stop all scanning and join AP with xx.xx.xx.xx MAC Address?
As a side note, My wife has her PB with 10.4.11 and does not have this problems in exactly the same enviorment.

@ Peter Lawrey
I was thinking of changing the locale of what the JVM were using by some flag or something since the process might be affecting the weblogic server (to rule things out). AFAICT Ive configured WL to use some other stamp but since I still get, at startup, the "old" timestamp and then it gets changed to stamp format as I defined either with a -D flag or in the config. The docs says the format is set by the locale from the environment, but changing locale doesn't affect it. I do agree that the question might be better i asked in a Wl forum so I did.
@ EJP
That option is not an option in this case.
Any moderator is free to delete this topic since I asked this in the WL forum instead.

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Thanks for your help! This really helps a lot! We actually only want to replace the autonmous access point with the controller solution and make one WLAN available at another site. From what I can see, this is possible with our current solution - we just need to switch from Layer 2 to Layer 3 and purchase the corresponding amount of supported Access Points (I think we should be able to get some refurbished ones).
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I did find this patent application though:
Roaming Network Stations Using A Mac Address Identifier To Select New Access Point
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The airport works fine for about 2 hours before the wireless network disappears without a trace. Green light remains on the base station and I can connect fine by Ethernet.
"it just don't make sense"
I hope it's not a windows-7-only thing, Apple.
PS. Updated firmware to the newest version, no difference.
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