WORKING -- FANTASTIC
This post is from my Knoppix client.

Ok here goes. It must have been a half hearted attempt to get it working without WEP.

When I tried to reconfigure my access point with WEP again so the other XP PCs reconnected, I got no connections. I then realised I had been using an incorrect WEP password - got one of the capital letters wrong (teach me to have such a complicated one). As soon as I used the right one, I could set the correct essid first time.

A network AP so secure that event the owner cannot get in.

Thanks for your help Grant, without it I would have given up by now

Steve