AEBS and Windows Vista Laptops.

I had a spare AEBS I had purchased last year and tried to replace a linksys router at my daughter's house with it. I used my MacBook and the Airport Utility on the MacBook to set it up with WPA. I had no problem connecting to the network with my MacBook and my iPhone. When I tried to connect 2 laptops running Vista, I had no luck. Both recognized the network and asked for the WPA key. When entered, neither would connect to the internet. I did not try to set it up without any security to see if WPA was the problem as suggested by some.
I would have thought by now connecting a Windows laptop to a AEBS encrypted network would be seamless. After that experience, I guess it is not.
Does anyone have any ideas or can point me in the right direction so I can figure this one out?
Thanks.

I have heard that to connect to an AirPort with WPA Personal encryption from Windows, you should specify WPA, with a pre-shared key (PSK) and TKIP encryption on the Windows side. I'm not sure how to select that though.

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