Airport Express not seen by Setup Asst or Admin Utility as Air Tunes remote

I have Earthlink DSL running into an Airport Extreme Base Station and then into my iMac. I bought an Airport Express to play iTunes music over powered speakers in a different room. I plugged the speakers in and then plugged in the Express. The Amber light blinks and neither the Airport Setup Asst or the Admin Utility see it.
I have reset the Express about five times. I was worried about range, so I plugged it in an outlet five feet from the Airport Extreme Base Station. Still flashing amber and the iMac's Airport utilities could not see it.
Do I have a bad Aiport Express or are some of my Base Station settings wrong?
Andy

Thanks so much for the tips, but unfortunately they leave me with more questions. Can you help?
if you are using wireless to connect to the
Express, you need to make sure that you have the
proper network name selected. It will not be the
name of your existing network because you haven't
set it up for that yet.
Where? The computer just does not see the Express wirelessly.
The easiest way to set up the Airport Express units
is to use an ethernet cable to plug a computer into
them directly.
And then what do I do to get it set up to be seen when it is wireless?
If you are, for example, trying to set the Airport
Express up in a WDS and you were to get the password
for encryption wrong, forget to set it to the same
channel, forget to give it the same name, or any
other little minor mistakes, it might no longer be
available as a wireless connection unless you reset
it.
In the config of the Airport Extreme Base Station, in the WDS tab, again, the Express is not seen. I can't make any mistakes because I can't do anything. It has NEVER been seen as a wireless connection.
I'm getting frustrated. Anyone want to buy a three week old Airport Extreme that has never been used but has a lot of pen marks on it from being reset about 20 times?
Andy

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