Wireless help for Aiport on Mac O.S. 10.5.8

Hi
Aiport on my Mac (10.5.8) no longer seems to recognize my home hub 2 as of Friday afternoon (26th Nov). Everytime I enter the home hub password, it comes up with the message "invalid password". Ethernet works fine. Wireless connects to windows pc. Have tried resetting hub and shutting down/restarting computer many times.
Have heard that this might be related to a security update from BT - is that likely to be possible? Or should I contact Apple?
I have been using this hub/Mac combination for the past year now without any problems.
Any help (and hopefully not too technically challenging) will be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Serenity

Serenity wrote:
Hi all,
I managed to solve this problem by - using Airport wireless assisstant and *unchecking* the "store password in keychain" box - I have no idea why this worked, but I thought to post it here in case anyone else has the same problem. I also removed all references to my home hub in Applications/Utilities/Keychain access/system and restarted my computer before entering the password as above.
Hi there,
It's quite possible that the entry for your wifi password was corrupted in keychain.
What I'd suggest you do, in addition to what you have done already, is to go to "Disk Utility" in "Utilities" (Here on Snow Leopard 10.6.5, the path is Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility, but it should be a similiar path on Leopard) and run a "Repair Disk Permissions".
I hope this info helps.
Edited to give more consise info.

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