Airport Express (steady greenlight) + MacBook Pro but no working airtunes

I do have the following situation:
After my first attempt more than 3/4 of a year ago, I thought it would be nice to try to connect my AE again with my new MBP. Last time I gave up, so I thought give it a new try!
I finally was able to access my AE with Airport Admin Utility.
The goal is to use the AE only to play Itunes through wifi on my stereo, no printing or internet access/sharing needed.
The AE is set with the following configuration:
AIRPORT-tab:
Name: Base Station
Contact: -
Location: -
Airport Network:
Wireless Mode: Join an Existing Wireless Network (Wireless Client)
Wireless Network: Livebox-ff44 (this is my ISP router)
Wireless Security: 128 bit WEP (also tried Not Enabled)
INTERNET-tab:
Connect Using: Wireless Network
Configure TCP/IP
Configure: Using DHCP
IP address: 192.168.1.11
Subnet mask: 25.255.255.0
Router address: 192.168.1.1
DNS servers: -
Domain name: -
DHCP Client ID: -
MUSIC-tab:
Enable Airtunes on this base station (ticked)
Enable Airtunes over the Ethernetport (ticked but ghosted)
Itunes Speaker Name: Base Station
No Itunes Speaker password set
So once again, the LED light is steady green.
In Itunes the Base Station can be selected, but music is still played of
the laptop speakers and not through the AE. I connected my Ipod headset
directly to the audio jack on the AE (I assume this is possible to check in this way), but no sound.
The Itunes volume is set correctly.
Does anyone has a clue what I am doing wrong or how I can test my situation easily?
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   2.16Ghz, 2GB

I assume that you are using 802.11g or b networking rather than 802.11n? I can get this to work with my Macbook Pro with 802.11g wireless with my airport express connected to my existing network, but when I turn on the 802.11n broadcast on, it fails. My Macbook is equipped with an 802.11n airport card and I can connect to the internet.

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