Airport Extreme Freezes After Soft Reset

Hi Everyone,
I'm having an issue with the 7.5.2 firmware update for my Airport Extreme. We have several devices which use DHCP reservations and after updating to 7.5.2 I went in to change some of the IPs and other settings (using AirPort Utility). After making the changes I pressed update and the Airport started the reset, but the light just stays amber and I have no connectivity. I end up having to pull the plug and do a hard reset. After a hard reset, when I check the Airport, none of my changes went into effect.
I have tried many times with different settings and it always does the same thing whenever I try to update the changes; it hangs during the soft reset without saving any changes. When I downgrade the firmware to 7.4.2, however, everything works perfectly.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I too have run into the same problem as ‘controls.freq’ although sometimes the light just stays amber (like controls.freq’s documented post) and other times it stays solid green after clicking "Update." No matter, the result is the same -- I have to perform a hard reset (pull the plug) of the Airport Extreme and none of my changes have been made. I not only run into this when trying to add static DHCP addresses (like controls.freq), but also when trying to add MAC addresses to timed access control lists, or (when playing around) trying to change my wireless network name .... honestly, it probably fails for many other changes too.
So I tried what Bob suggested -- but no luck. A lot of effort but no reward. I tried loading 7.4 firmware (tried both 7.4.2 and 7.4.1 which ran more reliably in my environment) and then doing the factory reset, then upgrading to 7.5.2 and setting everything up. But after maybe one successful save of settings, all subsequent saves failed as described earlier. Then I tried a factory reset while running 7.5.2 and ran into the same problem after maybe the first successful save.
The only reliable workaround is to DOWNGRADE to 7.4.x, make the necessary changes, and then upgrade again to 7.5.2. I must say ... if there were some way I could get the system to stop offering new code reliably (that doesn’t even work even when I tell it I don’t want to check for updates), then I’d just stay with 7.4.1 throughout the environment with success.

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