AirPort Express Network Set-Up Help

Here is what I have:
- Two AirPort Express
- One iMac G4 700 MHz Running OSX 10.3.9 NO AirPort Card
- One PowerBook G4 768 MHz Running OSX 10.2.8 WITH Airport Card
- One 2WIRE 1701HG DSL Modem/Wireless gateway with 4 ethernet ports
- One "newish" USB printer
I want to be able to:
- roam around the house with my PowerBook
- stream tunes off my iMac to one at a minimum and maybe two home stereos
- share the USB printer to allow for printing from the PowerBook
Here is how I have working:
- I am ethernet wired from the iMac to the 2WIRE dsl Modem and that's how I am browsing now
- my USB printer is hard wired to my iMac
- I can browse from PowerBook with an AirPort connection to the 2WIRE gateway
- I can print from the PowerBook to the printer hooked to the iMac
How do I integrate the AirPort Express Base Stations?
Can the iTunes stream go down through the ethernet to the 2WIRE and then trhough the air to the AirPort Express? Or do I have to stream through the ethernet through the wired router side of the 2WIRE box and out the ethernet to the first AirPort Express, through the air and then into the second AirPort Express
I started configuring the new AirPort Expresses by connecting them via ethernet but find that once they are set up I can not see them to make configuration changes (but I can see them but not configure them from the PowerBook).
Of Course the problem lies with the 2WIRE device but how do I get around it?

You can configure both Airport Express devices as wireless clients to the existing wireless network created by the 2Wire wireless router. To set this up, follow the instructions posted here by David Lovell (which apply equally to Macs and PCs):
David Lovell, "Airtunes for XP with a Wired/Wireless network" #1, 09:05pm Jan 8, 2005 CDT
Both your iMac (via its cabled connection) and your Powerbook (via its Airport connection) will communicate with both Airport Express devices via their common connection to the 2Wire router.

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