Airport Express used to be base station, now want to use only for AirTunes

After I moved to to different neighborhood, ATT informed me I had to upgrade from my former "elite" DSL to UVerse, which has wireless router. Want to use my Airport Express for AirTunes in a different part of the house, but I have repeatedly screwed up my network trying to reconfigure AE. Anybody have experience with this? Help!!

Thanks, Bob, for your quick response. Bit of a long story - I am talking about my place in the city where I live to work, about 6 hours away from where I am now; I am heading back there shortly. But, here's something like the whole story (as much as I can recall without the scratchy notes I have down there):
When I moved from apartment to house I bought 2 weeks ago, everything seemed fine - Uverse was installed and I used the AE to run powered speakers while I moved in. But then I noticed that my iPhone, and my friends' smart phones, would not connect to my home network. It was after I spoke to ATT support the first time, and they had me change security from WAN to WEP that my Airport problems started. My messing around trying to figure it out crashed my network at least once and caused another hour-long session with very helpful ATT support person re-setting my network.
So, Uverse security is WEP. My newish MacBook Pro runs 10.7.4. I was very frustrated by Airport Utility 6.1 not showing the AE, or only doing so if I made it my "base". I see from my older iMac here at home that I possibly need an older Airport Utility to detect the AE. But beyond that, I am gun-shy to try anything else with the AE without some advice.

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