Thanks for the replies. As I mentioned, I did switch the environment on the laptop to gnome, and thus switched to networkmanger with the gnome-networkmanager-applet. This did work for me, but then for some reason it indicated "wireless disabled" with this being greyed out (IE, something impossible for me to enable). After an endless amount of time searching the internet, I found one user who stated that her/his laptop had a button that activated the wifi hardware. So, I looked and found only the latch, which also had something that sort of seemed like it could be a button, and upon pressing it I suddenly found that the applet was finding wireless networks again. So, I'm thinking that when I reinstall lxde on the laptop, that maybe I'll have the same luck and get it working too. I'm now thinking it is either loose wires or gremlins or something, rather than a problem with the set up of the wireless networking software.
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