Airport Utility 5.6 for older Airport Express on Mountain Lion?

Yesterday, I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Mountain Lion. I was having some issues anyways, so I did a clean install. I'm now restoring my files, and reinstalling my applications. I went to the Airport Utility to configure my Airport Express (I wanted to also set up wireless printing now), but as I already knew, the latest version of the Airport Utility doesn't support my Airport Express's (I have 2). When I select it, it says to download Aiport Utility 5.6. So, I did. However, the installer tells me that my version of operating system isn't supported, so it terminated on me.
Does anyone know what I can do to manage me Airport Express's? I don't want to spend the money to get new ones because they work just fine (I extend the WiFi for my iPhone to get better signal outside, so 802.11N isn't going to help me there anyways).
I appreciate any help.
Thanks!

As an alternative to Pacifist, you may use two command-line utilities built in OS X: pkgutil to "unflatten" the flat package, and ditto to extract the Payload file inside it.
Assuming AirPortUtility56.dmg mounts to a volume AirPortUtility containing the flat package AirPortUtility56.pkg, then
cd ~/Desktop
pkgutil --expand /Volumes/AirPortUtility/AirPortUtility56.pkg AirPortUtility56
will unflatten the package into a folder AirPortUtility56 say on the Desktop. And
ditto -x AirPortUtility56/AirPortUtility56Lion.pkg/Payload Payload
wil extract the Payload file inside into a folder Payload say also on the Desktop.
AirPort Utility 5.6.app is there inside Payload/Applications/Utilities.

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Be sure to read the caveats at the end.
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