Airport Extreme, need old firmware, help

I have an airport extreme and I need to revert back to an older version of the firmware. Specifically I need the 7.2.1 firmware.
A link is here, http://support.apple.com/kb/DL218  And it does not work...
Where can I find a copy of that specific firmware?

The reason:
I have jailbroke my apple tv and I an using the extreme as a hub to pass through my hard drives so I can see them on XBMC (XBMC is the media center program I am running on the apple tv box)... I need the old firmware so I can make it work...
When I recieved the extreme this morning it had 7.2.1 installed on it... But I am a retard and upgraded because I did not know it woudl be a problem... Then to make things worse, I was not aware that upgrading the firmware was the problem, I thought it was the utility settings I had changed, so I removed the utility and reinstalled it... So now I do not have the option to fall back on 7.2.1, which was installed this morning...
So I am hoping to find a copy somehow so I can restore it and make this all work the way I want it to... It sure would be cool if the apple link worked, so I could restore it that way...

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