Airport Extreme N bridged to Airport Extreme B/G Possible?

I have a network with most devices served wirelessly via a new(ish) AEBS using 802.11N. Older devices capable only of B/G get their wireless service via an older Airport Express that's connected to the AEBS via ethernet and set to act as a bridge.
I have my wireless music served via newer Airport Expresses (as AirTunes clients to the AEBS) using 802.11N, together with one 2nds Gen Apple TV for video & audio.
I now need to connect to the network two non-wireless devices that are co-located but nowhere near to an ethernet cable.
I considered using an older B/G Airport Express, setting it as a WDS remote (with the existing Express as the WDS main) - which I understand is necessary to make the ethernet port, but this does not seem to be able to serve an address from the main AEBS using DHCP. (I tried with fixed addresses for both the Expresses and the device that I am trying to connect, but it doesn't seem to work - even though the WDS remote does have a fixed green light.)
Finally my question: somewhere I have an older AEBS (the 'flying saucer' shape). Would I have more luck in using this at the remote location - or even using two of them since I think I have two - and how would I configure? [I know that I could use an N Express, but I would need two and that would be expensive. The devices need Internet access, but not for fast throughput.]
To summarise:
AEBS N -> wireless clients
    |
(ethernet)
    |
Airport Express G -> wireless clients
    |
(wireless)
    |
    ? -> 2 new devices that ideally need DHCP served addresses

Thank you Bob
I have taken your advice and reverted to DHCP from the AEXP do the address assignment to both Expresses, and I have taken great care with the WDS setup, but still it doesn't work.
Looking at the logs on the WDS main, this is what I see (the station referred to being the WDS remote):
May 10 19:49:34          Severity:5          Deauthorizing station 00:11:24:01:15:97 [2]
May 10 19:49:54          Severity:5          Deauthenticated with station 00:11:24:01:15:97 (4-way timeout)
(This is even with a solid green on both Expresses.)
HOWEVER: I have just tried rebooting both of them - main followed by remote - and now they seem to have realised what they're supposed to be doing and both have IP addresses.   This is on my desk. The next step is to see whether I can get an IP address on a device attached by wire.
They do say patience is a virtue. I can testify to that being true with WDS!
-Bernard

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Really lost, depressed and fully not understanding this now…
Truly need serious HELP here-- I'm almost shut-down…
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I left-out one thing: Prior to the factory when I was trying to choose "Extend a wireless Network" I of course chose SteveBelWiFi
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