Wifi: No longer auto log-in to home wireless network

My late 2011 MBP (10.7.3) is no longer auto logging in to my home network.
I finally got round to upgrading my old (like 8 years) modem/router for a current model D-Link Wireless N ADSL2+ DSL-2740R. link (I think this just replaced the previous model of the same name.) I gave the network the same name as my 8-year-old one and the same login password.
Everything works fine and wifi is WAY faster. Wired connections are great.
But I can no longer persuade my MBP to auto log-in to my home network. Every time I wake my MBP from sleep I now have manually to pull down on the wifi menu (network) list and locate my home network again. I tried re-ordering the list to put my home network at the top of the preferred list of networks but the problem persists. It was working just fine before the change and always auto-logged-in to my home network upon awaking from sleep or booting.

It looks like manually deleting my whole preferred network list and then re-adding my home network may have done the trick.

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    Last edited by jaydoc (2010-02-26 07:57:15)

    Router Status
    Hardware Version WPN824v3
    Firmware Version V1.0.7_1.0.8NA
    Internet Port
    MAC Address 00:1E:68:12:EB:1C
    IP Address [i]edited[/i]
    DHCP DHCP Client
    IP Subnet Mask 255.255.252.0
    Domain Name Server 167.206.254.2
    167.206.254.1
    LAN Port
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    IP Address 192.168.1.1
    DHCP ON
    IP Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
    Wireless Port
    Name (SSID) jaydoc
    Region United States
    Channel 1
    Mode b and g
    Wireless AP ON
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