Airport Admin Utility can't find Airport Extreme

I have an older Airport Extreme, about 4 years old. It's been giving me trouble lately, where basically I check my computer and it's not online. I have to click the tiny reset button on the back of the airport and that usually works fine (although annoying).
Today the problem seems a bit worse. I tried the reset thing, but that didn't work. So I tried to do a reset through the airport admin utility. Unfortunately the utility can't seem to detect the airport, although it does detect the airport express we have downstairs (which is essentially used to extend our network a little further).
Currently, of the three tiny lights at the front of the airport, only the middle one is lit, and it is not flashing. Earlier, just after doing a restart, the middle light was blinking slowly and the third light (the one on the far right) was blinking more rapidly. I have not seen the first light lit up today.
If anyone has a suggestion on how I might get this working I would very much appreciate it. Thanks.

Are you getting internet access through the airport? I have the same problem - airport admin utility can't see the airport, but the airport extreme has created a generic network that i can't manipulate without airport admin utility. I have internet...

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Please excuse this duplicate post, but I posted this this morning in the AIrport Express forum at about 8 a.m. and have thus far received no replies at all. In fact, it's only been viewed a total of nine times -- and half of those are me. Very sad, and my friend is growing fairly desperate and is now convinced that only a complete reset and fresh start will fix his problem......

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Well, it's the old 'friend of mine' gag, eh. Seriously though, it seems there have been numerous post over in the Aiport forums regarding this issue. I guess the first thing your friend can try is following these instructions to reset the AE. One of the other things discussed was the firmware version for AE. Some users have reported that version 6.1.1 works better than 6.2. One user reported being able to use the other button in AE admin utility, then entering the assigned IP address and password to gain access. One user resolved his issue by enabling the setting Distrubute IP addresses in the AE. It should be noted he also reset up his network at that point as well. Now as far as the printer goes, below are some instructions from iFelix for the Windows side which may be of some help.
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