Airport utility won't see AEBS and I cannot setup

I have a new AEBS dual band (MC340LL/A), and I have been trying to set it up. My current system is an Intel iMac (Leopard) and macbook pro(Snow Leopard) that has been using the Internet via an old Snow? airport (M8209LL/A).
I have Airport Utility 5.51 installed, but I cannot get it to recognize the base station. The amber light flashes, but no recognition so I cannot set it up.
I tried unplugging my old Airport and disabling the network, I tried connecting the new AEBS directly to the laptop via LAN, I tried a hard reset (I hope) many times, but it won't see the base station. Of course it sees no base station, and since I have the same Airport utility on both Macs, I cannot see either base station when I try to hook up both of them.
The old base station is still working even though I cannot see it (hence this message), and I am not worried about it, beacuse I plan on retiring it, if I could ever get the new one set up.
Please help. What am I doing wrong?

"Bridge" is technically the more correct way to configure the AEBS as you only want one device....in this case the Linksys....handling DHCP and NAT service. You have two devices both doing this now. May or may not cause some issues down the line.
If you connect the old Snow to your AEBS using an ethernet cable from a LAN port on the AEBS to the WAN port on the Snow, and configure the wireless network with exactly the same name, security and password as the AEBS, that will in effect extend the wireless signal, but only at b/g levels. The Snow must be configured as a bridge to do this.
There may be some issues with security settings here. I don't remember much of anything about the Snow. I doubt that it has WPA2 Security capability, and that's probably what the new AEBS is using. May take some experimentation to see if you can match settings between the two devices.
Glad that the factory reset did the trick and that you got things going

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