What's the best Airport card for a Quicksilver Mac?

Way back in 2001/2002 when I bought my Quicksilver (dual-gigahertz), wireless stuff was pretty new. I didn't have any routers and there was no need for an Airport card. Over the next year or two, I started to accumulate more computers and roommates with computers. As it so happens, the very day I came back from a several week-long job and decided to finally purchase an Airport, that was the very same day of the Mac Conference and Steve Jobs introduced a fancy new Airport Extreme that had the new 802.11g technology. Well, needless to say, my order took a little longer than forever to arrive, and when it did, I found that they had accidentally sent me an Airport Extreme Base Station instead of the normal Airport Base Station that I ordered (802.11b). However, they did not accidentally send me an 802.11g card for my Quicksilver.
So, for years now, I've been using my Mac with a 802.11b card in it. For the rare times that I've had to transfer a significant amount of files between computers (and I didn't have an external drive that I could swap back and forth) I'd usually just leave the computer on overnight because it takes an extraordinarily long time to transfer at 802.11b speeds.
Now, I've recently purchased an Apple TV. It's constantly syncing up movies and video podcasts and now the difference between the 802.11b and 802.11g speeds are becoming more and more noticeable.
So, my first question is, can I even upgraded it? My preliminary searches have found the 802.11b card has been discontinued, is there another option?
My next question, if it is possible to upgrade, is what is the maximum network speed I can possibly achieve wirelessly? I tend to upgrade components, and if - at some point in the future - I upgrade my airport to 802.11n and I have another device with 802.11n capability, can I upgrade my Quicksilver to be able to communicate with that device at 802.11n speeds? Or does it look like 802.11g is going to be the max I can get?
Thanks!

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Avoid the 5770 cards on ebay and Amazon - many are black market or manipulated cards.
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And in my case, I was able to sell my old 2600 XT card on ebay for $65 and put that money toward a 5770 card (Which was about $230 minus the $65)
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