Thanks tom911 but we now have it sorted out. Very generious offer of you though!

Neither of us are using the manufacturers software and are both using Windows XP to manage the device. So I assume the strength "meter" is accurate for comparing apples to apples. Her's was bouncing about a bit at some locations and even dropping out entirely for a second or two, which could get annoying.

I think you may have been right kanebear...it may have been failing. Even close to a wireless router the meter seemed flaky and was going up and down. So we went to Micro Center here in Houston and got a good deal on a new Linksys G card and now at that same location her signal's "Excellent" too...so that seemed to do the trick.

Thanks Everyone!