Wireless on imac won't display any network SSID's - 10.7.4

Hi all, I have an older imac running Lion 10.7.4. My router is a Time Capsule running 7.6.1. Yesterday my imac randomly disconnected from wifi and hasn't been able to reconnect since.
When I click the wifi icon no networks show up in the list; it simply shows a greyed out "No Network Selected". My iphone and laptop each show 5 networks in the area including my own, the imac shows none. I even set my iphone up as a pesonal hotspot to see if the SSID would show up - it doesn't. I tried putting my network name in manually through "join other network"- nothing. I have reset the computer and router several times each - nothing. As far as my imac is concerned there are no wireless signals available.
So here's the odd part, I assume the wifi card has just died and haul my imac into the nearby apple authorized repair center. The guy plugs it in and it works no problem - shows the store's network and another one nearby and connects right away. The guy ran one or two quick tests but everything's working fine. I bring it home, the problem comes right back - can't see any of the wireless networks. Works fine through ethernet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Go to System Preferences > Network > Wi-Fi > Advanced, and delete all of the preferred networks. Then, try again

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