Airpor Express drops Audio (possible fix)

I research a handful of forums trying to figure out why my Itunes 7.01 and express station were dropping my audio stream.
It would drop every couple seconds.
I came to find out that my fix was as simple as connecting my airport antenna on back of my machine.
I know this may not fix everyone's problem but its worth a look. Good luck guys. I know many of us are experiencing problems with the express station dropping the signal.
Dual 2.0 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7) Itunes 7.01
Dual 2.0 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Having the same exact problem except my macbook stays connected with no drops. My toshiba laptop drops after a few minutes. the toshiba also has an Atheros wi-fi card. we tried connecting the Toshiba laptop to another AEX router and it did the same thing. AEX is conflicting either with windows vista or ths particular wi-fi card.

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This is my first post in Apple support discussions and while I did do a search to find a solution to my problem, I was unable to find one, so if this happens to be a repost, my humble apologies.
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