Airport Extreme worked for 2 days and now wont

3 days ago I wasted $600 on an Airport Extreme, 500Gb external drive, and the family pack of leopard excepting to use time machine with the shared airport disk. I quickly realized that wont work, maybe they'll fix it one day. What really ***** though is that my wireless connection was working perfectly for 2 days and then just died. Last night i boot up my macbook and get the network not found message. I entered my info manually and got it to connect, but it was extremely slow loading my homepage and then the connection simply stopped working. This is happening on both my brand new black macbook with leopard installed, and my fairly new white macbook that is still running tiger. I've reset the airport a few times and still the same results.
Did i get a defective router? I think i can still return it under apple's (supposed) return policy, should i just return it and go back to my reliable linksys g band router?
Thanks in advance.

Yes, following your advice i opened up the iMac and made sure it was well in place. It deem seem a little loose, but, it was still in the socket. After trying this, it still does not pick up the signal.
Any other ideas?
It just seemed to stop working , all of a sudden, !
I have noticed other people with similar problems,,
Thanks for any advice you can give me
Lara

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