Shoddy wireless drivers in 10.4.8?

I own a White Macbook of early production (says Macbook1,1, don't know if that helps). It works perfectly well with 10.4.6 which the Macbook came with. I would rather not have to stick with 10.4.6, but for now it seems my only option.
10.4.7 and 10.4.8 both had issues with ssh (which could be resolved by manually installing kerberos).
Much worse though is the state of wireless since 10.4.8. Even if I completely reinstall and update, and use the Apple knowledge base article about removing all wpa networks and adding them back (and removing keychain passwords), it still shows the following problem:
* Every time the computer has slept or been rebooted, it can't connect to the wireless 802.11g network. The indicator blinks between black and grey until it gives up after a minute or so.
* If I remove all wireless networks and reconnect it works, but only until next reboot or sleep.
* This happens whether I use WPA or just WPE. It seems it works fine with a completely open network, but there is no way I would run an unsecured wireless network.
* 10.4.6 works perfectly fine, and 10.4.7 worked fine as well. 10.4.8 shows this problem consistently, whether I use combo update from 10.4.6 or update sequentially with Software Update.
I've tried updating the firmware on my D-link 624+ router as well, without it changing anything.
I absolutely love my Macbook but I am a little concerned with the Q & A of recent OS X updates. The ssh issue really shouldn't have been possible to be released like that, while the airport problem I guess can be due to interaction between router and Macbook and harder to debug.

If I had an IntelMac I'd wait, or certainly not go past 10.4.7, and at that I'd surely use the bigger Combo Updates, not any of the Deltas.
Yet if I did try 10.4.8... it'd be installed on a seperate FW drive for testing... without messing with the working install.
All that being said... I still am at 10.3.9 or less on all my important work machines... only have Tiger on 2 machines to help sort out/test all the 10.4 problems!

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