[ineedmoresleep]

I had connection this morning. Had the pbook sleeping all day. Went to use machine about 2 hours ago and it said that a config chged and should I move my keychain to new config. Now #1, I don't have it so softw. updates goes on its own. #2, I installed NOTHING today.

k, next I procede to go online. I realize that i'm not connected to my wireless network. So, I double chk my settings.. reboot, and still not go. So, I go to the computer that is connected directly to router and I chg the wireless settings to new 64bit encrypt passw., new network name and new network passw. NOTHING.

The airport connect dialog states(after i try to input info and connect), that there is an error connecting to network. I am putting everything in right and I've triple chked my settings.

Now, here is the big one. I reboot one last time ( prob rebooted like 100 times in past hour) and I noticed something... Right before the gray apple boot-up screen (btw, go easy guys, I know my terminology is wacked - i've recently switched a few mths ago) there is a grey screen that comes up w/ a little square icon w/ a globe pic in it flashing... then after that stays for couple secs, a little folder icon comes up w/ an apple finder pic in middle w/ a ? flashing in it. What the hell is that.

I think there is something fishy going on but I'm not sure. If anyone can help (This is getting to be a ton to read so sorry guys) I would really appreciate it.

[Detrius]

Well, the square with the globe means your machine is looking for a netboot server (set in the startup disk control panel). The blinking question mark means that the system can't find a system to boot from.

Also, when you are not using an Airport Base station, passwords aren't accepted like you would expect. You need to input the hex version of the password (your router may or may not give it to you) instead of the actual password. If the router is showing up in the airport menu, this is likely what is going on.