2008 Airport Express utility doesn't work all of a sudden, name reverted to ID, lost security, message not supported.

The Airport Express I purchased in 2008 worked fine this morning, but when I tried to use Wi-Fi with my cell phone and iMac the light was green on the AE but no signal. I unplugged AE and unplugged my modem, plugged in my modem, plugged in my AE, it turned green but no signal - that is, the name I had given it did not appear on either my iMac of cell phone. Then, out of the blue, the original ID for my AE shows up on the iMac and phone and when I selected it my Wi-Fi worked, and is working. The problem is there now is no security. I got a message that Airport Utility did not support or something like that. So then I took the old CD that came with AE (in 2008) and loaded that on my iMac so I could re-establish WPA security. It seemed to load okay but then the following message popped up, "AirPort can't be installed on this disk [my Macintosh HD]. The version of Mac OS X on this volume is not supported." Well, yes, since I'd purchased my AE I'd gone through all the cats and recently had upgraded to Mountain Lion, 10.8.5, several weeks ago. But since this morning I had done nothing new.
So, it's 12:30am, Apple Care is not open - I'm not even sure I'm still covered - so maybe some night owl out there can tell me what I need to do. I'm beginning to suspect it might have to do with my operating system upgrade, but don't understand why this problem should suddenly crop up after several weeks. Any ideas out there? Oh, and incidentally, my AE was cutting off a lot about a year ago and I took it into an Apple Store and they did something with the software in the device and the cutting off improved but still would occur at least twice a week - something I just lived with.

Then, out of the blue, the original ID for my AE shows up on the iMac and phone and when I selected it my Wi-Fi worked, and is working.
My first thought is that the AirPort Express is normally good for 4-5 years on average, so you may be getting some signals in that regard.
The AirPort Express reset itself back to factory default settings. The big question now is if you re-configure it again whether it will hold those settings. Not likely....my opinion.
The other problem that you have is that Mountain Lion operating system no longer supports the older version of the AirPort Express that you have.
Oh, and incidentally, my AE was cutting off a lot about a year ago and I took it into an Apple Store and they did something with the software in the device and the cutting off improved but still would occur at least twice a week
It's really time for a new AirPort Express, which will offer much faster reliable performance....and it will be compatible with AirPort Utility on the Mountain Lion operating system.

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About Wireless Diagnostics
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http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
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You cannot uninstall version 6 (now 6.3 if you updated) so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. although I have had no problems when doing so.

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2008 Airport Express utility doesn't work all of a sudden, name reverted to ID, lost security, message not supported.

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