Airport Admin Utility cannot read configuration

10.5.2 software German. airport extreme airport express 802.11n
Admin Utility sees the AE Base, but fails to read its config, so I cannot change any settings.
Reset to factory setting would be very ugly as a solution.
It happens since I tried to add a second configuration by duplicating the existing one. Now I use the old configutation, but after I manged to restart the AE base with this old config, I cannot access te AE base for configuration any more

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