Airport express refuses to connect to extreme network.

I have an extreme network set up with 2 g5 imacs connected to a router. I wish to add an express base station to wirelessly connect to the established network as a client so I can stream music from either imac to the remote speakers plugged into the extreme base station.
After doing a hard reset on the express it shows up in the airport utility and I follow the prompts to connect it to my extreme network but when I click 'update' I get an error message saying airport utility was unable to find my wireless device after restarting. I tried setting the menu item back to airport before updating but then I get a different error message (see last image).
After I get these error messages I then have to do a hard reset on my express station to get it to show up again. Also I need to reselect the extreme network in the menu
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Perhaps you saved the AE's password previously in your keychain. When you reset the AE, its password reverted to "public" but your keychain was still sending the old password automatically, causing the problem you described. Is this correct?
Please describe your fix in more detail for the sake of others with the same problem who may view your post in hope of finding a solution.

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