Airport Extreme suddenly stop working

My airport extreme base is not letting me connect wirelessly with any devices any more.
I have internet access when I connect directly to the ethernet ports (i.e. iMac and Xbox 360, which are both plugged in). I have all the firmware updates.
I'm starting to think that the base has crapped out.
Anyone have any ideas for me to try before I buy a new one?

OK, one more wild stab and then I'm probably out of ideas (hopefully someone else has some new ones).
Way back in the stone ages (remember @Home?), you had to use an assigned host name. Is there any chance your PC and Netgear are configured with an ISP-assigned host name and your Extreme isn't? I think the host name would go in the Internet, TCP/IP, DHCP Client ID field in the AirPort Utility but I'm not sure.
To generalize this, look through all your Netgear configuration settings to see if you can find anything (like a host name, DHCP client ID, etc.) in it that you might need to transfer over to your Extreme configuration.
Beyond this I just don't know. Anyone else out there got any suggestions?

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