Airport Admin with Leopard

How can I administrate my old Airport base stations with Leopard? it does not come with the Airport Admin utility and the app that is there in Utilities does not work with the old Snow Base Stations?.... Any ideas?

Have you tried AirPort Admin Utility version 4.2? Tiger didn't necessarily come with it either, but it still works with Tiger.
If you don't have AirPort Admin Utility version 4.2, you can get it this way*:
. Go to http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airport42formacosx1033.html;
. Download a disk image named "AirPortSW42.dmg";
. If the installer launches, quit the installer;
. Double-click the disk image to mount a volume named "AirPort 4.2 Update";
. Within the AirPort 4.2 Update window, ctrl-click on "AirPortSW.pkg";
. Select "Show Package Contents";
. Open the "Contents" folder;
. Double-click the "Archive.pax.gz" file, which causes an "Archive.pax" file and an "Archive" folder to be extracted;
. Open the "Archive" folder, the "Applications" folder within it, and the "Utilities" folder within that.
The AirPort Admin Utility is there. Discard everything else that was downloaded, as it probably will not work with your system. (AirPort Setup Assistant version 4.2 does not even work with Tiger.)
*At least, this is how to get the utility using the Finder in Tiger. I imagine that the process would be the same in Leopard.

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