Four days of fiddling and the mystery has been solved... the "wpa-psk" command(?) was needed to create an encrypted password the router was expecting. I re-installed OpenBSD 4.5 and made sure the nwid and host names are different. Not sure if that was contributing but it's possible. Now on to installing 4.9!
Thank You both JGGIMI and OCICAT for your input.
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