Airport Express - MacBook Pro connection dropping

Since I have purchased a MacBook Pro I have problems with the Airport Express connection. Before I had a PowerBook G4 and I did not experienced any problems at all. The connection or signal strength drops within a few seconds from 3 lines to 0 (based on the status bar radar). When I use the OSX application "Internet connection" I see a signal strength in between 0 (no connection) and 5 (bad connection).
I already installed AirPort Express Firmware Update 6.3 for Mac OS X, AirPort Extreme Update 2007-002 and AirPort Extreme Update 2007-003, but i did not make any difference. Also I have changed the channel after downloading the widget Macwireless to see any disturbance channels.
My problem is described already, but there is no answer, follow the links bellow;
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3349062&#3349062
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4215850&#4215850
Thank you very much for your help!
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

I'm having the same problem, sitting literally 10 feet away from my Airport Express base!

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