Wireless cutting out while using (not in sleep)

in the past hour and a half I have dropped a wireless network connection 4 times. oops make that 6 it went down again twice while I was typing this.
1 time is simply disconnected and all i had to do was click on the airport icon and select my network
the other 4 times I clicked on the airport icon and no networks were listed (there are normally 3 all secure including my own) I had to turn airport off and back on to see the networks again.
I know its not my network because I have an old PC with an even older (5 years) B USB wireless that's staying on the network.
Has anyone had a problem like this and if so what did you do to correct it? I know I have read people not reconnecting to a network from sleep, but I don't think I haven't read any issues about MBPs not even seeing networks (though I may have missed a post or two)

Yes. I have had a problem with the 17" MBP and Airport Express drop. The problems seem to get worse. I have a PowerMac G5 and experienced no problems with it until recently. The Airport Set Up Utility is not functioning properly and the wireless system is becoming more eratic. I have a ActionTec (Verizon) Router as the main base station with two Airport Express stations. I have worked with both the Verizon and AppleCare tech support who cannot fix it. When I try to change the channel via Airport Utility, the window with the drop down menu to change channels dissappears before I can get my cursor to it. Now I have trouble getting one of my Airport Express stations to be re cognized and when I do and try to join it to an existing wireless network, it goes through the uploading and at the very end I get an error message. I got a second error message last night--cannot remember, as I worked on this for over 3 hours. This is what I mean by problems multiplying.
I do feel that MBP is somehow contributing to the problem but the Airport Express--great idea--has always had dropping issues with me that I thought were remedied until I got my MBP and now it is a real mess.

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