AirPort Express connection problems!

All right, I have an AirPort Express that up until now I've been able to successfully use to get both my MacBook and my Wii on the internet. But today, the signal kept disappearing from my menu bar. That had never happened before. I thought maybe I was too far away from it (even though both the airport and myself were in my tiny living room), so I moved closer, but it still kept disappearing. It would randomly appear, and I'd be able to use the internet for maybe 30 seconds, then it would disappear again. I tried soft resetting it, hard resetting it, and resetting it to the factory default with no success. The light on my AirPort Express shines green, but neither my MacBook nor my Wii can get/keep a signal. And now, after resetting it to the factory defaults, my MacBook can't connect to the internet even when the network DOES show up in the menu bar. Very frustrating! I used the AirPort Setup Assistant to restore my internet settings back onto the AirPort, but that didn't help. When I try to connect to it using the Admin utility, I get the spinning beachball for a while, then eventually get a password prompt—but after entering the password, it says, "The AirPort Admin Utility was unable to read the configuration of the selected base station. An error occurred while reading the configuration."
Any help? I've got so much work I need to do, it's crazy.
iMac G5, Power Mac G5, MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

further, do you mean your Airport symbol at the top of the screen grays out? If so, your symptoms are pretty much those of problems that are plaguing a number of Express users at the moment. You'll find several threads on the matter further down this forum, or, at least, threads describing the same symptoms.
The only thing that works for me - most of the time - is to do a factory re-set, wait a little while, then reconfigure, with the Express connected directly to the computer via an ethernet cable. The longest I've lasted without the problem recurring is about three days. I'm about 14 hours away from three days since it last happened. I have my fingers crossed.

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Connect your Express via ethernet cable to the Mac while other network connections on the Mac are switched OFF.
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Unplug and reconnect your Mac to the network.
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Hardreset the Express to factory settings
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