Airport Extreme n, difficulty connecting to Airport Express g

Can anyone help?
I have just bought a new n rated Extreme to replace my old round one, I have 3 Airport Express , 2 connected to stereos and one acting as a relay, however I cannot set up one of the AX's to act as a relay between my imac and the other AX's that are in the other rooms of the house, I have tried setting up manually using the Airport ID of all the Airports but when I update the Extreme it reverts to participate in a network and will not connect to the internet. The annoying thing is that the system was working perfectly before! All the firmware is updated, the new Extreme has not extended the network range at all.
Thanks

Hello huddler. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
To facilitate the WDS set up, try the following:
o Perform a "hard" reset on the AirPort Extreme Base Stations & a "factory default" reset on the AirPort Express Base Stations (AX) before setting up the WDS.
o Place the base stations within near proximity of each other during the set up phase, and then relocate them to their desired locations when complete.
o To avoid having to "switch" wireless networks during the WDS setup, attach each of the remote/relay base station, via an Ethernet cable, to the main base station. Of course, this would be dependent on the AirPort types used for the main/relays/remotes.
o Be sure to jot down the MAC addresses for each of the base stations to be used in the WDS as these will be required during the setup.
o When enabling wireless encryption, configure the relay/remote base stations first and the main base station last.

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