My wife suddenly lost connection to our Linksys router.

Her "Connect to a Network" dialog box showed only "Workgroup", not the
router or any of the other wireless routers in the area (yes, the selector
above was set to show all networks).

I went to the "Set up a connection" box, entered the appropriate info in,
and it said the network already existed, did I wish to create a new one, I
said "Yes" and appended an "A" to the name. It proceeded to the "Connect to
a Network" box where it still only showed "Workgroup".

At this point, I decided to try a reboot. Upon reboot, everything was back
to normal, but the connection I created by appending an "A" was nowhere in
sight.

Why would one part of Vista report that the network already exists, and the
dialog box not show it. Why are there so many different "views" on the
network connection on Vista? I thought Vista was supposed to improve
networking?