Airport Refuses all connects..

I had one of the old airports - the dome - and I have a second airport - the one that looks like a macbook powersupply - to extend the dome's range.
The dome finally died. So I retired it and brought the new(er) airport into the house to replace the dome. I have gone through the set-up multiple times, using all the security methods, but I can't get any device to successfully join after entering in my password.
On WEP mode, it tells me that I entered the wrong password....on WPA/WPA2, it just tells me that the device is unable to join.
I've tried entering the password as both "password" and password.
I've hard reset, and factory-reset the airport, only to reach the same end.
I am trying to connect from my iphone and ipad -- both devices were successfully connecting previously to the old airport and can connect to the lan @ work, so I know it's not the devices themselves.
Out of ideas - can anyone suggest something?
Thanks...

I had set-up the airport dhcp address pool that there was overlap with the router address pool which was causing the airport connects to fail...
Just in case someone else has this issue.

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