Airport Extreme Fails to mount/share disk

Recently I disconnected all users from my LaCie HD shared from my Apple Airport Extreme to back it up to another 1TB drive formatted as FAT32. I did this while directly connected to the MacbookPro.
1) It appears that there is no easy disconnected way to cleanly unmount a disk from the extreme. I was forced when connecting the drive to the MacbokPro to repair both the disk and permissions. Is there a safe way to do this?? I really found this as an artifact to the second and for me personnaly larger problem.
2) The drive now appears in the airport utility shared disks window as a 698GB disk, but I cannot get sharing to work under any circumstances. The Airport Utility will not otherwise recognize the disk. Both MAC and PC clients now (after having removed and replaced the disk) can now no longer see the base station as a "server". It gives a "not operational" error when using the BS/WAP name. When using the IP (internal address) it fails with a slightly different error (cannot be found).
I looked through the original 20 or so pages of posts trying to find something similar. I did not see anything.
Any suggestions??

Like Todd, in the original post, I have:
1. verified that connection between cable modem & comcast is fine by connecting both ThinkPad and PowerBook and both remain connected and are able to perform random downloads for hours on end.
2. Wireless connectivity works fine for my two laptops as they both work with an airport express and a Linksys wireless access point & router.
3. Hard reset teh Airport Extreme till I'm blue in the face.
4. Already have firmware 5.7 installed, the AEBS is brand new.
Symptoms are:
Both Thinkpad and Powerbook work fine after a power reset on the AEBS. But after an indeterminate amount of time -- anywhere from 15 minutes to three hours they fail to get beyond the AEBS out to the net.
It isn't the WiFi, because I can have one laptop computer connnected to the ethernet port and it fails get beyond the AEBS.
By simply restarting teh AEBS via the Airport Admin Utility or disconnecting power when the Airport Admin utility fails to connect to the AEBS, I can resume my work on the net.
It's not like I'm transferring large amounts of data, just doing casual surfing, so the error buffers should be overfilled.
It is that comcast is doing a regular expiration of my WAN IP address.
any clues?
any way to fix it?
PBook & ThinkPad   Windows XP Pro  

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