Airport suddenly disappeared

My husband has one of the older white iMacs, and while we were in our apartment he had the internet connected directly via an Ethernet cable since he had it right next to the cable modem. But now that we've moved into our house, he wants to use the AirPort again to become wireless because we can't get cables up from where the modem is on the first floor to the third floor where he put his iMac. But the AirPort icon disappeared completely from the top menu bar, and he can't find AirPort anywhere on his iMac to get it working again. Has anyone else ever experienced this problem? Will we have to take it to an Apple Store Genius Bar to get it looked at or is there a way we can fix it ourselves? Why would it disappear like that?
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
Lisa

Just ideas.
I've been having the dreaded and unresolved dropouts problem running a "Airport Extreme UFO" and I tried reverting to an earlier firmware version. It failed and my Airport was lost.
I did the 10 second hard reset, but the Airport was still lost. I found it by using the recently released Airport Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow Airports altho my Airport is the later Model A 1034. I was asked to update the firmware, which I did, and then I set up the base station using the Snow/Graphite Admin Utility. I then reverted to using the later Airport Utility 5.3.1 which picked up the settings.
What does this tell us? I don't have a clue.
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