AirPort Disk Utility "Connection failed..."

I have been experiencing some connection problems with my new APE and an external HD, for most of the time the drive will be connected as normal with no issue but recently I have had problems while using itunes, if itunes is playing from the HD and I then go into view the HD it will disconnect and when I try too connect back it gives me this "Connection failed, unknown user, incorrect password..." so the only way to reconnect is by turning off the HD & restarting or run AirPort Utility set-up. From what I can gather too much activity crashes the connection, I'm using a 400GB Freecom HD could it be the problem... Cheers

Okay, just got it working again. Here's what I did...
- Turned off the disk.
- Connected it directly to my PowerBook
- Turned it on and waited for it to mount (which it did fine)
- Launched Disk Utility
- Repaired it twice (even though "No problems were found.")
- Ejected it
- Turned it off
- Reconnected it to the base station
- Opened Airport utility
- Changed the access to allow Guests to read and write
- Updated the base station ( I heard it mount the drive on restart)
- Opened Air Disk utility and connected to the disk as a Guest (it worked)
- Re-launched the Airport utility
- Changed the access back not allow Guests to access the disk
- Updated the base station
- The disk attempted to mount and prompted me for the PW
- Entered the PW
- The disk mounted
So, ***!?! Why did that update cause all this commotion?

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