Airport Express and/or Macbook causing WIFI problem?

Hello..
Some months ago I bought an Airport Express (now running 7.6.4) to extend the WIFI from an Zyxel modem.
It has worked without a problem for months. Now however I am having issues with just one of the Macbooks (now running OS X 10.8.5) in the house.
First of all, Safari is loading VERY slowly and are sometimes loading pages partially whereas other times not loading them at all saying: "Safari cannot open page" (this is my translation from danish). Second of all, neither Mail or App Store seems to be online. Mail is not loading any new mails and App Store gives me the message: "Cannot make connection to App Store Internet connection required" (again my translation from danish - it might not be exact). Transmission has 25 finished torrents in queue and is not uploading, so I would think that this application does not really have internet either. Actually it seems as though the computer is offline, although Safari does load a page from time to time which I think is sort of weird.
When connecting to the Airport using an ethernet cable everything runs smoothly! The problem is only there when using WIFI.
My girlfriends Macbook is running 10.6.8 without any of the issues Im having. We also have two Apple TVs working without issue.
I have updated my Mac and the Airport and I have tried to disable DNS Prefething, none of which have solved my issues.
Please help!
Thanks in advance

Hello
Here are the pages describing how to reset:
Express: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108044
Extreme: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107451
Dual Ethernet Extreme: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106602
As for setting it all up again, I dont remember how I did it. But it works and I like to keep it that way!
Joining an existing network
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302153
Using WDS, (Extreme and Express to create one network):
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107454
HTH
Will

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