Thanks for the advice... I wondered if it was something like that. Unfortunately, I uninstalled both (using the installer app) and nothing changed. (Are the uninstalls not that clean? I haven't worked with debian packages before, but from what I know, that shouldn't be a problem...)

Another thing I noticed today was that ifconfig showed both a wlan0 and wlan0:1.... Any idea what is up with that?

I've tried both static and dhcp, no success... I'd be inclined to say the hardware is bad, but it is successfully getting an IP address using dhcp.

Everything looks normal in ifconfig other than about half of the Rx packets are "errors"