Airport Utility does not see devices

Ok... this started because i noticed that iTunes was not seeing my remote speakers connected to the airport express... so i start looking into it. Mind you, the whole time i am connected to my wireless network. I have an airport extreme that is connected to the cable modem and an airport express on the other side of the apartment that has the speakers connected to it. My wife's laptop sees both devices, as does the iMac... when i run airport utility on both, no problems. However, when i run it on my MacBook Pro... nothing, i rescan and rescan.... and nothing.
Any ideas on what i should be looking at?

Me too- but I have a Leopard G5 tower that can still see the Airport Express (g) and I have a Tiger MacBook that can also see it. Both can see it via the utility and via iTunes. But my Leopard MacBook Pro cannot see it for either service, though my connection still works. When I restart the Airport, I can briefly see it in the Utility, but it never reads the config and just spins forever. I've reinstalled the utility, but no dice.

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