Adding Airport Extreme (n) to existing network

Hi, I hope someone can help!
I bought an Airport Extreme (802.11n) hoping that I could connect it into my existing wireless network and use it to provide (wireless) access to a 400Gb USB disk and a Canon Printer.
I have experimented with it a little to establish that the disk and the printer would play ball. They both work via the Extreme ONLY when I access the base station directly, ie in a different network. Problem is I want to be able to use things like iTunes from the internet on a different network and use the 400Gb disk for the downloads! (Phew that's the scene set)
My existing wireless setup is: Linksys WAG300n wireless adsl router which allows access to the internet for my macbook pro and my son's and daughter's winxp machines.
To date I have tried setting the network up using the linksys as the dhcp server (as it usually is) and then with the Airport Extreme as the DHCP server (with the linksys dhcp server off). I am now ABSOLUTELY out of ideas.
Is what I want to do impossible or not? All I want to do is have the Airport Extreme sit within my wireless network providing access to disk and printer. I actually don't want it to act as a base station at all (right ??). Can I get the extreme to act as just an access portal to another piece of equipment?
btw the linksys WAG300n is not WDS capable so I can set up a "backbone" which I guess would be the ideal way to go.
btw (again) I have looked through this forum and haven't seen anything that immediately looks like the answer to me, so I apologise for my dumb question if it has been answered before.
Hope someone can shed some light on the problem!
Andrew
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9) Mac Book Pro

ADGlassby, Welcome to the discussion area!
Sorry but that is ONLY possible if the main base station supports WDS.

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