Airport Utility Problem

My connection to my Airport Extreme base station is strong and seems to be working fine,but when I open Airport Utility it says it is unable to find any airport base stations even though there clearly is a working one. And, since it doesn't recognize a base station, all its menus are greyed out so I can't access it at all. Any help on how to regain Airport Utility functionality - especially for when I eventually do lose the connection and will need airport utility to re-connect? Have updated Airport Utility and Airport base station firmware. Airport Utility still won't recognize the functioning Airport Extreme save for immediately following unplugging and then replugging the base station in - but then it 'loses' it again. Any ideas?

The problem started before the recent updates were issued so I was hopeful they would remedy it,but updating Airport utility and the AEBS firmware yielded no change. Interference Robustness is off as I usually have it (though I also tried it on to see if anything could help and it didn't).No new phones or appliances and AEBS location hasn't changed. Even downloaded APGrapher based on a suggestion to someone else in another Mac forum who is having an identical problem. It revealed no other wireless access points(save 'linksys' which has been listed as a network from the time I first set up my Apple network and I must confess I don't know why or how it's there and have just never used it or deleted it because I wasn't having any problems). Nothing has changed around or in the home of significance that I could point to as a cause for Airport Utility's sudden inability to recognize a functioning AEBS after they had been 'communicating' fine for over 1 year.

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