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Bryan,
I'd say that wireless passwords are a security issue, but Ubuntu has tended to treat them as far more serious than they actually are. Laptops commonly have confidential business or personal information, and hopefully have a login password, a bios password, or a disk encryption password to protect it. If those protections are adequate for the data, they're certainly adequate from protection against someone using your bandwidth, for which they need to be in a particular physical location, and so asking for a separate password just to get onto wireless is excessive.
However, at least for me, this is now working ok in Intrepid, so it's moot.