Strange SSIDs popping up- AE

Have Airport Extreme environment - home
MacBook (OS X 10.4.11) has changing SSIDs pop up in list periodically - wood, WEST 6018, . . .)
sometimes my main AE net drops and has difficulty reconnecting.
the nets change sometimes
I have cleaned the preferred networks down to my main AE but I still see the other nets.
Doubt my neighbor is spohisticated to run multiple and episodic nets - he has a linksys that pops up once in a while.
Is there software I can clean up here? some HARD refresh on my airport card in the MacBook?
BTW - Note - none of this happens on my MacBook Pro running 10.5.3.
Thanks
Benn

Well apparently your MacBook has better sensitivity than your MacBook Pro. The AirPort menu shows all detected networks. There isn't any way to filter or limit the list.

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