Well, I don't want to put my network in danger by having some one driving by, looking for open Wi-Fi to download illegal software off the Internet and I get thrown in jail. The eMac is only running 10.2.8 and I seriously dought the Cube has been upgraded past OS 9.

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Oh, well, 10.2.8 is your problem. I'm pretty sure WPA support didn't turn up in OS X until 10.3.(something?). Upgrade the eMac and you should be fine under OS X. You're still SOL under 9 unless you use a standalone wireless bridge or something.

(I wouldn't worry about someone "driving by" and hacking into a TKIP WPA network. The attacks against it are *obscure*, require deliberate hacking, and mostly amount to DoS attacks or *very limited* spying on data sent to an active client. Unless they guess your password they can't join the network. WEP of course is practically useless.)

is there a way you can do that soft loading of custom firmware to a Wavelan SILVER card in os9 or osx, i have 3 or 4 wavelan silver cards, and wep 64 doesn't even work, they only works when i completely disable encryption.

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The "soft firmware" trick is something built into the "oronoco" linux driver:

http://wiki.debian.org/orinoco

I don't know of it being implemented on any other OS, unfortunately. If you hunt hard enough you *should* be able to find the flash files to convert a Silver to a Gold, but I seem to vaguely recall there being some compatibility issues with the OS 9 drivers depending on what specific firmware build you upgrade to. :^/