With a link quality of 0 out of 100 I wouldn't wonder why you are not connected ? Maybe get a little closer to the router ? ( I am not sure whether this is applicable in your case )
Also try to first shutdown your eth1 connection - ifconfig eth1 down.
Thanks for the tip Dan! I'll try the second one though, as I was sitting 3 feet away from my wrouter

I'll have to check to make sure the ESSID and the WEP password was correct, but like I mentioned above, I did get it working on a wrouter that has no protection on it at all. good thing, it's not my router!

Scott