Strange network non-problem

The airport icon is fully lit.  My wireless connection to the internet seems to be totally fine.  However, the airport info and the network preferences info both say "no network selected".  I select my network, enter the password, but then it just jumps back to "no network selected".  I assume that it is actually connected to my own wireless router because I am connected to the internet and am able to surf the web normally, I'm just wondering what glitch is going on here?  I'm pretty sure when I used to click on the airport icon it would show the name of my network at the top of the list as the one it was connected to.  Now it just appears with all the other networks in range and only says "no network selected" at the top.  And I can't seem to do anything to select one.  Any ideas?  I say this is a non-problem because I am actually connected.  But I'm a stickler for detail and don't like when things aren't functioning exactly as they are supposed to.

FrenchToast, to answer your question:  Even though I seemed to be able to use the internet, the Network Name line still said "no network selected".  And It wouldn't change when I tried to select my network from the drop down list.  I also couldn't get the dot next to "Airport" in the connection list to turn from yellow to green even when the connection was totally fine.
HOWEVER, I just solved the problem.  I went into my router preferences and renamed the router (or SSID).  I then reestablished the connection to the new network name.  I then went to "Network Preferences" and erased the original name from the "Preferred Networks" list.  Then I went back to my router's preferences and changed the SSID again back to the name I had before and reconnected again.  Now everthing seems to be fine.  It shows my network as connected and in Network Preferences the dot next to "Airport" is now green.  Something glitchy was definitely going on but this workaround seems to have helped.  Weird.

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