AEBSn "disappears" - but it still works!

Hi all,
I'm a newbie to the boards, but not a Mac novice... even so, I am stumped!
I bought my shiny new Airport Extreme Base Station yesterday, and straight out of the box (with the new Admin utility installed on my Mac, and firmware updated to 7.1.1) I couldn't see the new base station. Not even a message to say it needed to be set up, or anything.
To configure it, I had to connect by cable directly from my Mac to the base station.
After setup, I can wirelessly connect to the internet via the base station using my PC (i.e. the base station name appears in my list, I can connect to it, and use it), but I can't on my Mac - it doesn't appear, even if I type in the name as a "closed network" (which it isn't anyway).
Even more bizarre, even though my PC can connect to the base station, when using the admin utility on there it STILL doesn't find it!
I have the latest version of the admin utility, and firmware, installed.
So, to summarise (as I have waffled a bit!):
- I can't connect to my base station wirelessly using the Admin utility provided, on either my Mac or PC
- I can't find the network listed in my Airport list on my Mac at all, and typing the name as a closed network doesn't help
- I can connect and use the internet wirelessly from my PC, via the base station
- I can use both machines via base station when connected with cables (surely not the point of having wireless, eh?)
And I'm not even going to begin with extending the network with my old Airport Express... the utility can't see that either!
Help! Any ideas folks? Thanks in advance.
Jason

I figured it out; it was a configuration issue.
The Airport Express is used in two locations. At home, as a remote base station on WDS, and in my camper in Maine where the flashing yellow light issue began. Here's how I fixed it:
- AirPort Admin Utility/Menu Bar/Base Station/Profiles.../Add (profile). (Give the new profile a unique base station name in the main window under the Airport tab. You will be able to choose the original profile again, if necessary, by navigating to Profiles per first line of this paragraph.)
- Then, in the new profile, click on the WDS tab and uncheck "Enable this base station as a WDS." Now, click on "Update" in the lower right corner to restart the AE.
Wahlah! My slow flashing yellow light immediately turned into a rapid flashing green light, which had been toggled in Base Station Options.../Status Light in the original profile.
That's it. Hope this helps someone else with the same issue.
Bucky

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