Airport Extreme Not Seeing Hard Drives

When I first installed Leopard, everything worked great, no issues with APEn connection or with my USB drive attached to it. Because transfer speeds are terribly slow to the hard drive (only 0.5-1 MBps when 802.11n should theoretically be getting me up to 16MBps - another issue entirely that I've yet to fix), I decided to unplug the network drive and simply plug it into my MBP to transfer things from it to a new hard drive I've got.
The problems only started the next day, when I went to plug the network drive back into the APEn, and it didn't show up. Figuring some settings just got a little mixed up, I went into Airport Utility, and saw that the APEn no longer even recognizes that the drive is plugged into it, it doesn't show up in the list of drives at all.
I figured it was a drive issue, so I plugged it back into my MBP, repaired the drive so it came out clean, and tried again, but still nothing showing on the APEn (even though the drive was spinning away as usual).
I then figured it must be a USB problem on the APEn, but when I plugged in my printer as a test, it worked flawlessly. My last idea was a problem with the USB cable itself, but the cable works fine using the drive with my laptop, so that's a no go too.
I keep the other drive at work during the week, but I want to bring it home tomorrow to test it out, see if it's the APEn or the drive that isn't playing nice. However, just to be sure, I tested 2 different USB flash drives, neither of which was reported as seen by the APEn.
Is anybody else seeing this problem, where the APEn simply isn't even recognizing hard drives plugged into it?

I admit... this one has me baffled... Like I have done numerous times, I restarted the base station with the hard drive plugged in, and all the sudden it showed up! I didn't have to touch the firmware as others recommended, it simply just started to work again.
The only thing that I can think of is that when I'd restarted in the past, it must have always been the choice of the APEn, when it had crashed for one reason or another, never me telling it to restart on my own with nothing otherwise going wrong (It even took my MBP down with it with kernel panics 4 times in one night... yet only when using torrents, though I'd never had any issues previously).
Even my speed issue was fixed, giving me up to 3 MBps by my calculations... for about 30 seconds... For some reason as soon as I hit a corrupted part of one file (transferring from APEn HD to MBP), it brought down the entire network, being unable to copy that single file. Now after restarting everything, I'm back to getting wimpy sub-1 MBps speeds... On that front, or on keeping this whole affair from starting over, has anybody got any recommendations for good "housekeeping"?

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