The dreaded Airport Card not Installed error

I'm getting this error now, along with problems with my ethernet port. It was working fine on Sunday, I closed it and put it in its bag, then when I took it out later, no wireless and ethernet wasn't working. I rebooted and then got the "Air Port card not installed" message. The ethernet card will not pick up an IP via DHCP, however, if I manually assign an address, it can contact machines on my local net only - I even finished a Time Machine backup to a windows share after the failure.
failed repair attempts:
Reboot
SMC and PRAM reset - multiple times
Reinstall
Delete .kext files (not all of them, just the ones recommended in other threads like IO8011family.kext - which was recreated, but still no joy.)
I'm about ready to wipe and reload, but I fortunately have a the old hard drive I took out when I upgraded - it exactly as I took it out - I didn't change a thing.
Before I try swapping the drives or wipe and reload, does anyone have any ideas?

Well, repairing disk permissions did not help. Another SMC rest and PRAM reset did not help, and booting from external hard drive (different software) did not help. I'm really scared now because there is no way I can afford to repair it until November. Does anyone have any ideas?

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