Hello Carl,
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:04:31 -0500 (EST), Carl Gehr wrote:

BUT, I'd still like to get WPA-TKIP to work...

Bad News:
1)  No matter what I do, I've not been able to get this to
   work.
2)  The WPA Supplicant displays and just keeps looping through
   the same bunch of [to me] gibberish.  I did change the
   'Debug Level' to 'verbose' and I captured what appears
   to be a repeating bunch of lines.  But, not knowing what
   all of the stuff means, I'm a bit hesitant to just post
   it here in a rather public forum.

If there is someone out there who can interpret the stuff [It's only
about 22 lines.], I can send it off-list as a text file.

I guess I'm curious:  Is there no standard 'generate' tool that will
create compatible keys?  I also find it interesting that xWLAN
generates four keys, while the router only has one.  I assume other
routers have more keys?

For WPA(2)-TKIP you only need one key, the four keys in xWLAN are for WEP only. I guess those key generaters all have their own way for generating keys. I get my keys from here:
https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm
I copy one key (63 random printable ASCII characters) and paste it in the
router setup and in the laptop. A key with 63 random characters is impossible
to crack, unless they manage to break WPA like they did with WEP.

Frank