What questions do I need to ask the IT department?

My employer recently set up wireless access for our whole campus, and I'd like to be able to connect to it with my MacBook.
This isn't a hack job - I'm fully authorized to access the network. My problem is just that when I called the Help Desk to ask what settings I should use to configure Airport, I got the answer we always get in our group whenever we ask a question: "Sorry, we don't support Macs. If you want to use this feature, you need to request a Windows PC from the hardware support team."
I've got some people in IT that I can call who probably can help me "under the table" -- but I'll need to know EXACTLY what info I'll need and where they can find it on a Windows system. Can anyone tell me what I should ask for in Windows-ese, and how to translate their answers into what I need to configure the Airport card?
Note: I've tried scanning with KisMac and identified maybe a dozen wireless networks visible from our building, both managed and non-managed and with an assortment of open, WEP and WPA access -- so the range of possibilities is too large to get very far with trial and error.
Thanks for any info...

Just ask them for the network name and if wireless encryption is enabled. If wireless encryption is enabled, ask them for the associated password.

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