Airport Airdisk nearly useless with Leopard 10.5.1

Oh god, I just bought an Airport Extreme 802.11n thinking it would be the best networking experience of my life. I just bricked up my Linksys (flashing power light) by trying to upgrade to openWRT and needed to replace it.
So I picked up an airport extreme at BB along with a nice 360GB USB drive to serve as an airdisk.
I connect the airport, configure the network side with not much problems (except for the silly reboot every time you make a small config change... god, is this thing running Windows 98 or something ;-))
Next I connect my new Seagate HD enclosure. OK, airport complain about it and tell me that the disk need to be repaired... what? Don't tell me the disk is defective!
I connect the disk to my mac and it come up with not problems what so ever. OK, what is the problem then? I simple reformat as HFS+ to please the airport and connect again.
OK, now it see the thing. I configure file sharing on it and "restart" it for the 10th time (it must really be running on windows)
What? Now I have two new network names in my finder bar... Airport and some strange cpe(mac address) name. Apparently airport won't put a nice name on the CIFS side of the house... can I fix this please? How?
I could leave with all of the above. What really kill me is the SLOW, SLOW, SLOW network transfer rate of the airport. Trying to copy a 16MB application take like 2 minute! But if I zip it it will transfer in like 10 seconds! What the heck is this? Is the airport that slow when transferring large qty of small files? Large file transfer rate is blazingly fast but lot of small files just kill the thing.
The other very slow thing is erasing files from the airdisk. Almost a minute to erase the 16MB application.
I am really really really disappointed with the Apple product. It is the 1st time I feel I tried a bad product from Apple... But everyone need a 1st. I hope this is the last bad Apple product I ever encounter.
I really hope there is a fix for this. I even downgrade my Airport Extreme firmware to 7.1.1 from 7.2.1 so the Airdisk would stay connected properly. With 7.2.1 it would simply not connect to airdisk after a while.
Please give me some advise!

I upgraded back to 7.2.1 and had no more problems connecting to the airdrive... really don't understand this... might be related to the fact that I configured the airport to only use IPV6 Local.
But I had to go back to 7.1.1 because NAT-PMP is broken in 7.2.1. Transmission would just not properly map a port with 7.2.1. Under 7.1.1 all is fixed.
I am starting to wonder if I will not return the little airport back to BB and exchange for a Linksys. I mean, one of the reason to get the Airport was to use it as a airdisk... but I can't use it due to poor transfer (over wired) ethernet.

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sos10: "I did make sure however iTunes wasn't on the list in the Firewall settings."
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