Chrissie, you will only get logged out of the web interface for the router when you are idle (not doing anything) on the computer, you won't get kicked off the web. When you have done that you should be all fixed up. So try and connect with your laptop, when it asks for a password on the laptop put the same password in, if you can't logon with the new password try the one on the box. If that one works then the new one has not been saved into the router. You may need to start again. At least you have been through the procedure and all these post will still be here. Good Luck and let us know how you get on. I have dealt with a lot of newbie technophobes before but never on a forum before, so I hope it all works out.
@BritBrat not sure about the password as it could be guessed. Now change the second $ to % and the second 1 to * then it's way more difficult to guess.
There should be in one of the security pages the option to hide the password. I'll have a look through these manuals that I have downloaded.
Your all typing too fast for me.