Airport Extreme and WD My Book World Edition

Hello,
I am considering buying an airport extreme, but I am fairly new to the product and had some questions about it.
I have a WD My Book World Edition wireless hard drive, is it possible to plug the hard drive into the airport extreme via ethernet cable? Or does the airport extreme have to be connected to the wireless modem.
I already have a wireless network setup with a linksys wireless router, I am just confused on if I need to plug the airport extreme into the wireless router or the modem.
The reason I am asking this question is because I also want to be able to stream music to my home theater receiver, and my theater receiver is in my office, and the wireless router is in a different room. I'd like to be able to have my WD My Book located in my office, as opposed to next to the wireless router.
hopefully this made some sense and someone can answer my questions! I just want to be 100% clear before I buy anything!
thank you!

Welcome to the discussions, ithew!
If you want to be able to stream AirTunes from your computer to your stereo, you need an AirPort Express, not an AirPort Extreme.
The AirPort Express would be configured to "join" your wireless network for this function.
The AirPort Express does not support a hard drive at it's USB port if that is where you were thinking of plugging in the WD device. The WD drive would stay connected to your network just as it is now.

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