Why do i have a $1300 mac that cant do wifi? About to give up on apple...!

I will try not to rant here that much.
I have been a happy mac user since september of 2006. I have been a very unhappy frustrated mac user since last week.
I bragged about how great the mac is. how it is for everyone. I have converted 2 families over to an imac... but now. I am so mad.
I have set up wireless networks with windows xp and hated every minute of it.
Therefore, when i finally set up this mac with my old off brand wifi g router, and had it work right away, i was impressed.
I even bragged to my friends about how they were so stuck with windows, and me with my mac... well i was just so much cooler than them.
Once in a while the wifi would go out. No big deal, but a week ago it started to go from a snowflake to a blizzard... The wifi wouldnt just go out, it would dissapear completely.
I cannot connect to the gateway at all.
Cannot access the internet.
I do this:
1. Unplug all cordless 2.4 ghz phones
2. Tear down my entire network and reconnect everything.
3. Go to the networking pane and check everything is working. I remove all networks from the preferred network list and then add them again.
4. I restart the computer with the airport power off.
None of this works.
Half the time i cannot even see my wifi router in the list without restarting the computer.
I buy a brand new netgear 802.11g router and install it. I even call netgear to see that the settings are correct (that it is broadcasting the SSID properly etc) and we change the channel to channel 02 and "G" only connections...
THE CONNECTION STILL DROPS EACH 15-30 MINUTES FOR NO REASON AT ALL.
I install the 2007-001 airport update which fixes things... sort of.
Since i download alot of files, and i have a dashboard widget that i pulled to the desktop to watch my network speeds, i can see that the update hasnt fixed anything... the connection still dissapears. however the computer then quickly tries to restablish the connection, as though you were to release/renew the ip quickly.
So there you go. No real fix.
Someone told me taht there is a combo update for 10.4.8 that i should try... what will that fix? I have 16 gigs of stuff on my mac HDD that i cannot lose, and dont have the option of quickly backing it all up, so i cant goto 10.4.7 easilly.
I am so mad. i am incessed... The apple store tells me to bring it in a get it fixed, however i can get connections to OTHER networks most of the time.
AND WHEN I BOOT INTO WINDOWS XP AND PLAY A GAME FOR AN HOUR, THERE IS NO PROBLEM AT ALL... so that shows me this is an os x problem.
Ok... lots of ranting.
is there a fix? Why did i buy a $1300 computer that cant connect to the internet?
iMac (intel) Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I spent 2750 $ for my 24" iMac (price for my region)...
And the perfect world of Steve Jobs still close, but never we've been in there!

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