Well, yeah flipping the switch back and forth all the time works, but gets really annoying if you have to do it all the time. Thanks for the suggestion though. I finally got a reply on xda-dev from a developer of a program which controls wifi settings that aren't otherwise available, and it solved my problem!!
Check it out for yourself, it's great.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=373168