WEP Password and airport

My ISP recently advised all customers to change their WEP passwords for connecting to their wireless broadband. I did this and have been having the following problem.
Every time my screensaver comes on, the computer goes to standby or is shut down, when I wake it up/re start, i cant connect to the internet. The signal strength is full, and the network name is listed as connected, but web pages etc wont load so clearly my mac isn't connected. This never happened with the old password, as soon as the mac was active, the internet connection was live.
My work around, which while working is an annoyance, is to choose 'other' on the airport button on the top panel, then select my network (the same one that is ticked on the drop down window) and either put in my new wep password again, or, type in anything at random and hit connect. with wep it connects again, with random a window pops up saying cant connect try again or ok. If i hit ok, then click my network name again in the drop down panel from the signal strength button, it connects fine without my new WEP being inputted again.
I've tried deleting any reference to my network and internet in my key chain but the problem persists.
Its a bad and complicated explanation I know, but id appreciate any suggestions anyone has:)

Actually it's a great description, I've seen it many times, generally what you've done fixes it.
Try one or both these commands in Terminal next time...
sudo ipconfig set en1 BOOTP;sudo ipconfig set en1 DHCP
sudo ifconfig en1 down;sudo ifconfig en1 up
Also try Logging out/back in.
Try making a new user to test.

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