hi i'm back
the lenovo t forume had some advice as to downloading an application and updated driver for the wireless card "Here's your wireless driver:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-70504 After downloading it, you must go into C>Drivers>Win>Wlanint and run the setup file from there.
Hope this helps."
and it worked like a charm.
anyway thanks for the help.