How do I do port forwarding on my airport extreme for my IP camera (foscam)?

Hi,
I've been working on this for what seems like a week.  I purchased a wireless security camera to put in my house and to see from my laptop (or IPAD2) when I'm away.  I am able to see it from either device when I'm here at home, but not when I'm out on the road. 
According to the instructions for a mac setup, I needed to set up a DDNS service  and get a free account at DynDNS, which I did.  They also told me to use a different port than 80, suggesting 8081 as the http port which I plugged in to the camera device setting..  The next step is to do PORT FORWARDING and then I should be able to use my DDNS domain name and port number to login to my camera anywhere...
I'm stuck in how to do this with my airport extreme.  I see where I have to go into utilities and click on airport utility, and then manual set-up..
Right now when I click on the Internet tab at the top I see the connection sharing is off (Bridge Mode), and that I have to change it to share a public IP address to get DHCP and NAT to appear in the tabs..
when I go to NAT, the box for enable NAT port mapping protocol is checked and then there is a tab I can click on that says Configure Port Mapping.
I know that I'm supposed to click the plus button + to enter a service and a port and here's where I get stuck
when I click the + button I can either click on the choose  a service tab, which then drops down a list of services like Personal File Sharing, Window Sharing, Personal Web Sharing, Remote Login SSH , etc, or just keep it where it says choose a service and not choose one of the services.
Then there are some boxes to fill in for Public UDP Port(s), Public TCP Port(s),  PRIVATE IP address-where the only numbers I can change are the last ones and I don't know if I'm supposed to put the IP address of the camera or what?  and then the boxes for Public UDP and PUBLIC TCP.
I tried a few times to fill out the port numbers to 8081 (the one I selected for the IP camera) but I don't know what to do for the private IP address. When I changed the last numbers to the IP address of my camera, and went to update, it told me that I  had to correct the 2 problems before updating:
DHCP beginning address, and dhcp ending address...as the DHCP range you have entered conflicts with the  WAN IP address of your Airport wireless device.  So I cancel and am stuck.
Sorry this is so long.. but I really can't get anyone to help me figure this out.. The camera company isn't answering ..
Thanks!!
Barry

Thanks for the info. I checked the model number on the Westell site to get info on the device. From Westell's info.....
1. Product Description
                        This ADSL modem is a NAT router with a four port 10/100BaseT Ethernet switch, a USB port and 802.11g wireless interface.
So, while you might refer to it as a "modem" ( a modem will only have one Ethernet port), you have a router or gateway. A gateway is simply a modem and router in the same box.
With the AirPort Extreme, you have 2 routers on the network. Basic networking rules dictate that when there are 2 routers, the first....your Westell.....must handlde DHCP and NAT,  and the second router....in this case the AirPort Extreme....must be configured to operate in Bridge Mode so that it will function correctly on the network. That's why the AirPort Extreme is in Bridge Mode. That is the correct setting on your network.
That's also why you were getting the error messages when you tried to configure the Extreme as a second router.
As I mentioned before, any port mapping or port forwarding is going to have to be set up on the "main" router....your Westell. It cannot be set up on the AirPort Extreme.

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