Well after a couple of weeks of devoting too much time (enough time that I could of purchased 2 of these laptops), this problem has been resolved. A Dell hardware tech. support rep. was dispatched to my residence. He replaced the network adapter card with a 6230 and Dell also gave me the OS disk as well.  If anyone has this issue (visit the link in my previous post): #1 Get your network adapter replaced. (Hopefully you're still under warrany).  The 1030 is junk. #2 Install the drivers as RockSt☆r-Rick K mentions (BTW - thanks for that advice). It DOES make a difference.  A couple of last notes, Dell phone support was great. They're slow because they have to assume you don't know a computer from a corn field. One thing that kills me about this issue though, is why Dell shipping out a faulty product? It's a laptop - the wireless needs to work. I only discovered this problem after my wife got a virus on the computer and I had to reinstall everything. The laptop was working on a wired network but never knew the wireless was DOA. Glad she got the virus when she did because we were within weeks of expiration.  Thanks for all of your input.
I had to reinstall Windows but upon reinstallation, I noticed that wireless does not connect. I tried pressing Fn +F2. Nothing. No LED light for wireless. First I started the WLAN AutoConfig service under services.msc. After starting/enabling this service - nothing. I searched the forum and found a post for Quickset. I followed the instructions given and restarted. When I press Fn+F2 the screen flashes the wifi symbol and my wifi LED comes on. However, when I go to connect to a wireless network - none can be found (I have connected to this network before and know that it works). I searched help and suppoort and navigated to Manage Wireless Networks. I click on the Add button and get the following message:Windows cannot detect any wireless network interfaces. Does anyone have a clue on how to fix this? Getting wireless to work after reinstallation should not be this painful. Thanks in advance.
Dell Inspiron N5110 Wireless cannot connect