To that last question, no idea, just throwing something out there and seeing what the response would be. Well I disabled the DHCP and the WiFi tells me it's not enabled so I wonder why it is acting as though it were.
Is there perhaps a windows service I could enable/disable?
BTW judging by your sig you use Linux, well I tried using Linux for this, but my wlan is recognised as ethernet by Knoppix. Are there any other Live CD Linux distributions I could try or do you by any chanc eknow how to fix that issue?