Airport Express- Amber Light Blinking - Nothing works!

Looking for Henry B. (or anyone else with a bright idea).
A few days ago, no airport connection from my PB G4. I have had the same setup for the last year and a half without a problem - Airport 802.11b to AXP to T1 connection to/from my wall (no modem or router, etc.).
Problems started with the no-connection. Clicking on the Airport icon in the toolbar gave me the endless spinning wheel. Hard shut down, which I NEVER have to do. In the last four days, I've done hard shut downs about 30-50 times.
AXP: had a green light. Unplugged for 20 seconds, plugged back in to a green light. Did a soft reset, thinking something had to change so the PB would see the AXP. Amber blinking light. Hard reset. Amber blinking light. Factory default reset: Amber blinking light. Every time, the PB doesn't see the AXP or an Apple Newtork XXXXXX.
Plugging the ethernet cable from the wall directly into the PB works great. Called the ISP, great technician could see my connection, said everything was fine on their end and that they do not limit any wireless/router equipment usage.
Again, not a single problem until a few days ago.
With all the crashes, I saw that some Finder crashes were involving Application Enhancer. I had Application Enhancer until an hour ago - uninstalled it. Didn't help. Also read about StuffIt AVR causing problems bu thaven't located any file with that name.
Henry B., if you're out there, please send me a miracle cure.
Cheers all,
Jason

clicking Airport icon shows no available networks (i used to see some of the meighbors' networks sometimes. so i can't seem to connect wirelessly.
have another graphite iBook clamshell running Panther. didn't mention this earlier, but that computer has been acting similar to mine since the same day a few days ago. i just opened airport setup assistant and have the spinning ball for the last four minutes.
again, both computers worked fine until that day. the only things i could think of that would cause this coincidence are power surge, virus, or something to do with airport. PB is working fine now, after 4-5 restarts today. iBook now seems frozen.

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My comments from today for the following help topic may help you.
Currently, this topic is onet he first page of this iTunes Newsgroup.
DaleB
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