Running BT5R3 amd64. Ran update/upgrade...wicd wouldn't work so I looked and looked and looked, but the solutions didn't seem to work in my case. I reinstalled and ran into more wicd issues such as...

I did an update/upgrade and after a reboot I had major issues with wicd. In the end I just saved what I wanted to keep and reloaded. There were a lot of discussions on here about it, but none of them...

So, you're running ifconfig or iwconfig every 1-2 minutes? It looks like you are changing it properly. I use the same syntax, but have never had a problem with it changing itself on me.