As of OS X 10.4, the ability to turn off probing was removed. David Maynor of Erratasec.com told me this. Now it probes like crazy and you can't turn it off. That's unfortunate.
Latest XP SP2 WLAN patch lets you turn off probing. Vista defaults to no probing unless you explicitly ask for it.
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