Airport Express and Airport Extreme on same network? (for Air tunes)

Hi - we just replaced our router with an Airport Extreme...unfortunately we can't get our Expresses to show up on the same network - in fact I have to turn off the Extreme connection and reset the expresses to factory to even get them to show up in the AP utility. Which in the end did no good.
Question is - has anyone managed to make the 2 work together and if so, how. I'm only interested in Express for Airtunes, the Extreme covers the internet. We've selected the g/b compatibility etc.
Any help welcome - if not, we're going back to the old router.
Thanks

Yes, the two are compatible and work rather well for airtunes.
Reset the express by holding the reset button for approx. 5 seconds(till the light flashes).
Turn on Airport and open Airport utility, select the express, then set it to "join a wireless network" on the wireless tab, and connect it to your existing network(extreme). Obviously you will have to enter the network info(name/passes/etc). But should link rather easily. The whole process should only take a minute or two.

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