Airport Extreme won't connect to hidden WPA network????

I have SSID broadcasting turned off on my ATT modem/wireless router so my network is hidden from my neighbors, but now my AEX won't join the network. No matter how many times I put in the network name and WPA pass, when the AEX reboots it has flashing amber and status is "...set up to join a specific wireless network that can't be found."
Can't be found? That's funny because 2 macs, a PC, an iPhone and a TiVo all found it just fine. What gives?
I want to have my AEX broadcast Airtunes to my Airport Express, and apparently the only way to do it is connect the AEX to the ATT router and then blah blah blah
Yes, I've triple checked that I'm entering the network name and WPA pass correctly. No love. Help! Thanks.

Thanks for your ongoing help, really appreciate it.
That's what I thought too. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be the case. My mac is connected to the network via an ethernet cable to the ATT router. The Express is connected to the network via the wireless network created by the ATT router. But my mac apparently can't communicate with the Express unless the mac and the express are both on the wireless network at the same time.
In other words, if I put my mac and the express on the wireless network being created by the ATT router airtunes works. But as soon as I turn off the airport on my mac (so it's now connected to the network via ethernet only) airtunes stops working.
I was hoping to get airtunes to work without having to connect my mac to the wireless network at all. I prefer to do the mac via ethernet since it's marginally faster and more reliable. Oh well, I guess I can just turn the airport on my mac on whenever I want to listen to music on the stereo via the mac.

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