Airport Express no longer shows in Airport Utility

I have had a lot of problems lately with my TimeCapsule and Airport Express. Neither have been showing in the Airport Utility. I had to do a hard reset and was eventually able to continue my backups, even though after the reconfig the TimeCapsule doesn't show again. I picked up the airport express to do streaming of audio and it worked great for about 6 weeks. I have done a factory reset on the device and it showed up for about an hour. I am looking at the AE and the light is green, but it doesn't show in the Airport utility and cannot get the speakers to show in my itunes.
Help!

Ended up being a problem between my two routers conflicting with each other. Set up two different networks in the house and now all is happy.

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