Airport Extreme disconnecting 2-4 times a day

I have a DSL 300-T ADSL Modem (not a router) bought from the Apple shop connected to an Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS). I live in the UK and am using a PPOA connection with Orange Broadband.
Unfortunately, there are frequent disconnections (probably at least 3 times a day). During all these times, the modem is connected to the internet, but the AEBS either remains green showing no problems even though it has self-assigned a private IP address for itself (169.xx.xx.x). At other times, the AEBS blinks amber and says ethernet unplugged when it isn't.To make matters worse, the Base station then cannot reconnect because it cannot scan it, even though it's 2 feet away from my MacBook. Ironically it scans for networks outside my house before mine!
I've tried many 'solutions' from the Apple Discussions pages but none has worked for me.
It's a curious problem, but it's very annoying not having a reliable AEBS connection. I was hoping the issue would have been resolved in Snow Leopard but the issue remains.

About 10 days ago I purchased a 15" MBP for my wife as an early Birthday and Christmas present.
Since that time we have experienced problems very similar to what other people are posting. Internet works fine but suddenly we lose connection to the Airport Extreme. All I have to do is unplug the Airport Extreme and wait 10-30 sec, re-plug and we are up and running again.
I have tried the power down everything from the cable (Time Warner) modem to the computer and restart. Still, get network shutdowns every 30 min to 4 hours. Very frustrating.
Currently we have 3 apple laptops, 2 iMacs, 2 Windows XP laptops and two video consoles that utilize the network.
Where should I read for the best information on changing my airport extreme network to a 192.168.1.x set-up? Honestly does not sound like fun but looks like I might need to do it.
Thanks,
Paul in KC
MacBook, 24" iMac and 20" G5 iMac, MBP X2 Mac OS X (10.5.1)

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