Airport Express; Seriously unreliable and frustrating. Please Help?

Hi Guys,
I'm a bit of a novice with Macs but not to the extent that I can't follow some some simple instructuons !
I have a 2009 Unibody Macbook Pro running OSX 10.8.5 and use an Airport Express 2nd generation to send music from iTunes to the Express and then a phono cable from the Airport Express to my hi fi. The Express is no more that 2 meters away, yes ONLY two meters away yet it's always been very unreliable.
I find that when I wake in the morning and switch everything on then double click an internet radio station I have in itunes that the Airport Express will be located after a little while and begin playing sound thorugh to my speakers.
If how ever I switch everything on and leave it for longer that 3 minute then click an sound file in iTunes that iTunes or Airport Utility can't locate the Express.
Also if I then switch off the Express and back on after only a short while iTunes or Airport utility still doesn't find it. I find that I have to switch it off for much longer periods then make sure I start playing music in iTunes right away or I'll miss a window of connection if I get one at all or then again the Airport Express wont be detected.
I've tried a soft re-set and a hard re-set but this doesn't change any thing.
To me The Airport Express is extremely unrealible and frustrating to use.
Can any of you suggest what else I could try that would enable to me to more reliably connect and send music to my Airport Express?
Cheers guys,
Dan

Keeping saying that somthing is a bad product when a) you are not that technical and b) new to mac is not really fair now is it.   I've got 6 Airports in Total - 4 AE 1 time machine and one old Extreme - they all work perfectly together. And the correct network configuration is always tricky. Most people never set it up right.
We are here to help!
Personally I have issues with Virgin's Super Hub and resorted to turning off the Wifi and router part of it, so it's just a modem and having an Airport express be a Router and I have 4 others connecting to that.
Not for your problem... If you don't need the signal boost and are happy with the connection in the house, certainly in the room you are in then just 'Join a network' Way simpler and will not cause possible network conflictions.
For example if you try and extend a network you can sometimes get double nat errors.   What you don't want it for the Airport AND the BT hub to act as routers on the same network  - you only want one.
Also, just did some more research on here 'airport and homehub' The BT hub appears to not have Open WDS standards.  So more than likely that is your issue if you are trying to extend the network. May work for a while then fall over.
Another thing to check is the Wireless security type on your home hub it seems.  Both should be the same.
WEP  (Avoid!)
WPA2 - PSK - AES
WPA - PSK - TKIP
WPA/WPA2 Personal
WPA2 Personal

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