Airport Extreme Problem. Guest network works, but nothing else!!!

An hour or so ago, my network stopped working. My guest one works, but not my main 2.4 or 5 ghz network. I tried the Airport utility but it can't read the configuration file. HELP!!

Please power down the AirPort Extreme and your computer.
Temporarily, connect an ethernet cable from your computer to one of the LAN <-> ports on the AirPort Exptreme.
Power up the AirPort Extreme first, then your computer
Open AirPort Utility, click Manual Setup
Click the word "Status" and a window will open with information about any errors on the AirPort Extreme.
Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

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