Sudden change in Airport behavior

My MBP has been doing just fine, connecting to my next door neighbor's LInksys (and another neighbor's ActionTec). (Yes, they know I'm using their bandwidths; we struck a deal, and I pay a small stipend.) Today, however, I cannot get on, repeatedly getting the messages about not finding a trusted network (when it follows by offering to join the trusted network), or simply that there was a problem connecting.
In contrast, my Pismo laptop, with an original Airport card, has next to no trouble connecting, anywhere in the house.
I can't recall if I've run any udpates, lately; there's a distinct possibility, but which one, I don't know, and I'm relatively sure they weren't system-ish updates, more like an app or two. I do know that it was not an Airport updater, as I had discovered one, but in the process of attempting to download, the connection became much slower, so I abandoned it, figuring I'd pick it up later.
I haven't been doing any serious 'net use, lately, just some net radio. I've tried rebuilding permissions I don't know how many times. Outside of that, I'm lost.
Anyone got an idea or two?

They're open.
To make matters more interesting, I swiped the Airport card from my wife's pseudo-dead G3 iBook 800 (video issue) and stuck it in my MDD 1.25...it's what I'm connected to the net on, right now. Sometimes it gets on, sometimes it doesn't.
So, in all:
MBP 2.16: Worked fine until the other day, now nothing, regardless of location.
Pismo 500: Works great, anwywhere in house.
MDD G4 w/borrowed card: Works, for the most part.

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