WiFi Stability with MacOS 10.4.10?

Since buying my 1st Apple computer (listed below), last October, I have had no end of problems with connecting to our home wireless router. Soon after purchase, I upgraded to MacOS 10.4.7 and suffered the occasional failure to connect, or drop-out after connection.
When I upgraded to 10.4.8 (December 2006?) the problems got much worse, and re-connection was only possible by switching off WPA encryption and getting the router (listed below) to broadcast its SSID - this was not acceptable from a security point of view - at which point I contacted Apple Support.
Apple Support told me that WiFi problems with 10.4.8 (on Macbooks?) were known to them, and that they would not be fully solved until 10.5 came out. They recommended I should roll back to 10.4.6 (using my intallation disk). This was successful in restoring WiFi connection as described in my 1st paragraph, and I have since upgraded back to 10.4.7 from Apple archives.
When 10.4.9 came out (February 2007?) I made the mistake of accepting this upgrade - only to find that it completely trashed WiFi connectivity (even without WPA and SSID broadcast). So I spent another happy 2 days restoring 10.4.7 and much installed software.
Meanwhile, our trusty 6-year-old Viglen Dossier, running Windows 98, continued to achieve perfect WiFi connectivity via its 3Com OfficeConnect 802.11g PCMCIA card - even though it and its OS were designed before 802.11 was even written! In fact one interesting symptom of our Apple WiFi problems is that: when a drop-out occurs, a reliable way of getting the Apple to reconnect is to start the Viglen (?!).
I am back running 10.4.7 with the occasional "There was a problem connecting to XXXX network" (usually repeated 3 times before a connection is established) and regular drop-outs after about 2 hours of use. Recently, I took my Macbook to a friend's house and found similar but worse problems connecting to his Linksys router - even when 2 metres from its antenna.
*My questions are: does anyone else have these problems with Macbooks and 3rd party Wifi equipment? Is this an issue of 802.11 standards adherence? Has anyone found an improvement in WiFi connectivity with 10.4.10? (which I am reluctant to adopt).*

WiFi issues have been discussed ad naseum on the MacBook and MacBook Pro forums. I suggest looking over there. The problem with third party routers is not limited to Macs either. The 64 bit Windows machines have difficulty with older Netgear routers as well. Until vendors start all agreeing to a WiFi standard keep on pestering the makers of the routers for better adherence to standards. Netgear when I called them on it even admitted their drivers don't work with 64 bit Windows machines. If they don't work with Windows machines, what chance do they have with Macs?
I have found though that your 2 meter range is actually a range within that WiFi signals begin to weaken! Probably so much wireless traffic within the vicinity of the router, that it causes problems for machines set up to pick up multiple channels. My WiFi FAQ* here may be helpful:
http://www.macmaps.com/WIFI1048.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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