Airport Express as a client on a D-Link 624 WPA2 network

Hi everyone!
I took the plunge and bought an iPod and I'm totally hooked.
Then I got an Airport Express. I had some issues getting it connected as a client, so I tried it with no encryption or security whatsoever (not even WEP) and it worked brilliantly. I played music on my wireless windows laptop and on my living room stero and it was great.
However, I can't get the warm & fuzzies about running my network with no security. I'm not wedded to my router (d-link 624) but after 10 days of futzing with it, I'm ready to give up. I have tried WPA with AES and TKIP, both no dice. I haven't tried WEP because I don't think it's much better than nothing.
I have googled until I could google no more and while I see whisperings of people with these issues, I've yet to find a solution or a clear report from someone that has it working.
I'm quite experienced in setting up wired and wireless networks, this is not new to me.
Has anyone been able to get this setup working?
Any tricks I should know about?
I'm using a 63 character ASCII password, randomly generated. At first it was full of punctuation and symbols, then I changed to one with only alphanumerics, still no dice.
In my router logs I see, "Wireless PC connected" followed by the Airport's WiFi MAC address, then "authenticating...". Those 2 messages are repeated every 10 seconds.
Airport is running firmware 6.2 and the airport utility on Windows is 4.2
Any help appreciated from this budding Apple fan - thanks
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I have an D-Link DI-524 working with a Airport Express. I try someday WPA security for my network and this had made my wireless network unreliable.
I found on the D-Link website an information stating that D-Link product must use WEP-128bit HEX to be compatible with Airport Product.
Since now, it work perfectly using this security. You should try this. And beside, I do not agree that WEP isn't better than nothing. How many people know how to hack a WEP-128bit wireless network within you wireless range? If you have no security at all, for sure, someone will use your connection one day.
But still, even better than any security, if you can reduce the power of the wireless signal to the minimum you need, it will reduce as well any chance for someone to hack you.
But still, I think you should try WEP in your setup. Good luck,

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