Airport Extreme N + XP = not compatible?

Hi, I've an Airport Extreme N for 3 weeks now and works very very well with my Macbook Pro. But I cann't set up a working wireless connection with my Windows XP pc. Windows XP doesn't find any wireless internet connection at all.
The Airport Radio Mode is set to 802.11n (802.11b/g compatible).
I've tried 2 different wifi-certified pci cards so far. Only one (Sweex Wireless Lan PCI card 140 Nitro Xm) was capable to connect to the AE through the Airport Utility only when NO encryption was used. In both casses Windows XP wasn't able to find any wireless internet connection. But with the Sweex I had a week slow internet connection, which doesn't satifies me at all.
The distance from the Airport Base Station to the pc is about 8 meters with a brick wall between each. My Macbook Pro has an excellent connection at the same place where the pc is bassed.
I've changed the channels (channel 13 to 8, 10 or ...), with no succes. I've sought a lot on the internet, this discussions board include, about my problem but I didn't find any equal issue.
Is it possible that the Airport Extreme isn't fully compatible with PC's like Apple says or am I an isolated issue, because there are people where everything just works fine...?
Oh, the other card was a brand new Belkin Wireless G Desktop Card pci and I used the latest drivers as an up to date Windows XP sp2 system.
Airport Extreme N   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

I'm on Win XP, using the new Airport Extreme and it does work rather well for me, so I don't think it's a general rule that they fail. Have you tried moving the Airport unit right next to the computer to see if it was the PC receiver acting up or not? I have duely noted that some receivers are much weaker than others.

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