Airport Extreme on my Mac Pro isnt finding any networks at all

hello, i just installed and Airport Extreme card in my Mac Pro yesterday configured it and it isnt finding any kind of wireless networks to connect to, and the router for my network is only 20 feet away from my Mac Pro, any ideas of why this could be?

Okay but what if....
I bought a new Mac Pro Quad on Friday night at an actual Apple store. They only carried stock base models, so I loaded up on extras like a 750 GB drive, 6GB more memory, and also AP Extreme & BT. They sold it to me, didn't bat an eye about it being a dealer only installed item. But much like some of the other users I've seen posted, cannot seem to find instructions on HOW to install it.
But I'd have to presume that a store full of Apple experts, all fawning over my new Quad and 30" monitor...that at least one of them would have stopped me from buying it.

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Okay but what if....
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i asked what my options were for installing an airport card and they said they could do it at the apple store.
i asked if i could do it personally and they said that i could, that it wouldn't void the warranty, but that they would do it for free, and it would be a difficult operation to try on my own.
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15-inch Early 2008 >Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo>Memory 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM>Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
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I do not want to update to Mountain Lion again.. since the first time proved to bring with it crashing and lots of glitches. And, I only ever do totally clean installs, wiping my HD with a 3x pass in disk utility. Main problem: External HD's which used to connect to my network with the AE under the "shared" sidebar, no longer appear. Matter of fact, my Airport Extreme in general, no longer appears in the Network folder. Nor do I see the ext HD under the "Disks" tab in Airport Utilities.
The external IS formatted as HFS Journaled *extended*, and has been for a while, back to when it used to work. I'm not sure of when it stopped being recognized, but the factors that have changed since then are that I did update to ML, but soon after went back to Lion. I also recently moved, and had to set up a new network of course. I also think perhaps that the Airport Utility version changed during this time.
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