Airport Express relay and remote no longer work

After upgrading to Snow Leopard 10.6.4 from Tiger 10.4.11, my two Airport Express units (one relay, one remote) will no longer work. My Airport Extreme Base unit is fine, and our desktops and laptops still connect to the wireless. However, I want to be able to use the Express units to extend our wireless through the rest of the house and play iTunes, as I did before upgrading.
I have spent days trying to fix this, and I have probably worn out the hard reset by now. I have checked to see if I need any updates, but my screen assures my I am fine. The two express units are sometimes recognized by the Airport Utility, sometimes not. Usually when I try to do a manual set-up, I am told that an error occurred with the configuration for the Express unit.
Any advice/sympathy is appreciated. If I can't fix this, I guess I have two semi-expensive paperweights. Bear in mind, I love my Macs and Apple products in general, but right now, the whole thing is reminding me of Dell ****.

Any advice out there? I've even taken bypassed my main Extreme base to plug the ethernet connection directly into the Mac desktop to do software updates that might have been missed by going through the Extreme and wifi. While it did install one security update, it didn't affect the Express units.
I'm wondering about firmware. I have checked over and over for software updates, and my system assures me that everything is up to date. However, I'm concerned that somehow I'm missing a firmware update. My Airport Utility tells me my Extreme is running on Version 5.7, and on the few times one of the Express units shows up, it shows as running Version 6.#.
Do I need to manually install a firmware update, and if so, how? I terrified that I will mess up the ONE wifi unit that is functioning.
Ironically, my Extreme base is the oldest in my batch-both of the Express units are newer than it.

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