Turning on Wifi crashes system

I've finally taken the plunge into the Mac world and bough a mini. When I turned it on and went through the welcome screen and entered my wireless details it froze completely. When I rebooted it kept crashing on the welcome screen.
I re-installed OS X with a LAN cable and everything worked fine. When I enabled wireless it again crashed the system. I've updated everything including an update to air port but no change - each time I enable wireless I have to reboot to safe mode and disable it before I can use the Mac.
While I don't actually need the wifi as its going to be my media box I'm confused as to why this doesn't work. Am I doing something wrong?
Wifi Router: Thompson ST585 with WPA2 enabled

To be honest, I bought the Mac because I previously had a way too complicated system of media streaming (PC, DLINK meadia server, remote drive, wireless & home plug LAN), and I was always going to connect via LAN. If the issue with the wireless is due to an incompatible router, that's fine. I'll leave it until I need to use wireless - the hardware test on the Mac came up OK.
I was posting on the forum in case there was something I could do to fix it - if the problem is with the router, I'll leave it
Thanks again

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