Adding Time Capsule to Airport Extreme/Epresses

I'm not sure if this is the right place and I'm posting this question in other Discussion groups as well. If this isn't the right place, please let me know where I should post this.
I just purchased a Time Capsule. I've got an old (cone shaped) Airport Extreme and two Airport Expressses (to extend the range of my wireless network).
I've also got a DSL modem which is connected to an old SMC Wireless router. Right now the Airport Extreme is connected (in bridge mode) to the SMC Wireless router and the Expresses are "connected" to the Extreme. There's also a printer connected to the Express.
Everything works (more or less) fine as things are (there are some issues with two laptops trying to use the Extreme/Express network "knocking each other off, but that's not what I'm concerned with now).
I'm wondering whether I should replace the Airport Extreme portion of things with the Time Capsule, or if I should just connect the Time Capsule to the SCM Wireless router (it has four or five ethernet out ports) and set it up to work with the Extreme/Express network some how.
Has anyone ever tried that kind of thing or have any input?
Thanks!

Thanks for the input! I wouldn't mind doing away with the SMC part of things, but there are some "legacy" reasons why I keep it (plus it does have a more ethernet ports than either the Extreme or TC).
As for this:
"Also, a possible reason of why there is an issue with the two laptops connecting to the network, is that maybe they are trying to be assigned the same IP address, and so therefore are cutting each other off when they connect to the network."
I'd worried about that, but . . . I've got an old Pismo that can talk to the Extreme at the same time as my MacBook and an Apple TV and two iPhones and a wireless webcam that all talk to the Extreme while the MacBook does. It's only the MacBook and MacBook Pro that have problems with each other. I've check the MAC address (or whatever) of them and seen they're different. For what it's worth, the MacBook started life as a clone of the MacBook Pro.

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