Airport Express Router - Black Magic, Vodoo or just plain poor design

My setup is TP Link modem in bridge mode connected to airport extreme to provide DHCP. All clients connected with no problems except the airport express n base station connected as client for airtunes.
The airport express will connect fine initially with green lights and all. It will then decide to drop off and remains in solid amber light. Tried soft, hard and factory resets but Airport Utility won't pick it up. I have google around, read all the forum and blogs and tried everything suggested for the last 3 months or so. The airport express will not broadcast its own wireless network and no matter what I tried, I can't get Airport Utility to recognise it so I can reconfigure it. Last night out of frustration, I pick up the airport express base station and gave it several wack on the palm of my hand and it came to live. It finally braodcast its default wireless. I decided to leave it on overnight to see if it will continue to broadcast in the morning. Yes, it's now configured in client mode to join my wireless network and playing music from my iphone to my powered speakers for several hours now.
So if anyone has a solid amber light on your stubborn airport express, you might want to give it a spanking. Not sure if the power cabling inside was blocking the transmitter or antennae and the wacking might moved things around (I could hear something was loose inside).

Hi Tesserax,
I have been playing music without missing beat for around 10 hours and decided to move the AX to its permanent location. But guess what? It exhibit its solid amber light again and cannot be found through airport utility. Unplug it, gave it a few whack and it works again. Now up and running without dropout. Guess I have to leave it there and not move it again.
You might be right though that I might have a defective unit but can be made to function through whacking it.

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======SOLUTION THAT I POSTED======
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Resolution
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In Mac OS X, AirPort Utility is located in the Applications > Utilities folder.
In Microsoft Windows, AirPort Utility can be located by clicking Start > All Programs > AirPort.
Note: You may also locate and download the latest Wi-Fi base station firmware and software by clicking here.
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