Snow Leopard 10.6.5 causes iMac wifi hub problems

I have used my iMac's Airport feature to temporarily make my iMac a WiFi hub for our iPad for several months.
It worked like a charm. We'd just click the Airport icon to turn it on when we needed it and then turn Airport off when we were done with the iPad.
But with 10.6.5, the Sharing window under Internet & Wireless within System Preferences changed a lot and it appears that the simple functionality of pre 10.6.5 is gone.
Now, when we click the icon to turn Airport on, Airport attempts to connect to other WiFi networks that it detects (mostly my neighbors' routers) instead of becoming a WiFi hub. In order to stop it searching for WiFi networks and become a WiFi hub, I have to go into System Preferences -> Internet & Wireless -> Sharing, highlight "Internet Sharing" and uncheck the box, recheck the box, answer the prompts and THEN Airport will begin to broadcast a wifi signal and stop trying to detect other available WiFi networks.
Once I perform these steps, I can then turn WiFi on and off as before, until I reboot.
After each reboot, I have to go through the same procedure again (a procedure which is beyond my wife, who is the main user of the feature).
I know many people will say "get a router", but the Airport WiFi broadcast option was a great little feature for providing a temporary WiFi hub for occasional use.
I spent quite some time with Apple support on this issue, without finding a better solution.
Any thoughts?

No scripts were needed before 10.6.5 and non are needed now.
You just go into Preferences -> Internet & Wireless -> Sharing
In 10.6.5, just highlight Internet Sharing and under "Share your connection from" select "Ethernet" and under "To computers using" select Airport.
The "look" of the Sharing window within Preferences looks VERY different in 10.6.5. But the choices are essentially the same.
But, as I posted, the functionality has become more awkward.

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