Airport wifi password--connects w/o PW but not with

I prefer to figure stuff out on my own, but this time I need community help.
I currently have a dual band airport setup for a totally Mac network. iMac 3.06 ghz connects to airport extreme ("n") at 5 ghz while my old mac book pros (G3 & G4) connect to my old Airport express (g) at 2.4 ghz. Also my Epson Artisan 800 all-in-one wifi printer connects just fine to my airport express at 2.4 ghz. Everything has worked great for a year using WPA passwords. (This was set up as a WDS--Wireless Distribution System-- following the info in "Designing Airport Networks" support download from Apple.)
PROBLEM: I'm trying to connect my Insignia Bly-ray wifi to my airport express. It connects fine if I remove password protection from my Airport Express, but when I replace the WPS AES password that has worked just fine for the last year, the Blu-ray will not connect. I thought that meant it was a problem with the Blu-ray device; however the Blu-ray connects very happily to my Airport Extreme with WPA AES password. OK, I could live with this if the Blu-ray wifi ran at 5 ghz, but it only runs at 2.4 ghz and slows down my system from 5 ghz to 2.4 ghz. I want to get the blu-ray to connect via the Airport Express (with all my other slower devices) rather than the Airport Extreme. The problem seems to be in the password for the Airport Express.
To clarify, the blu-ray wifi has no problem with the password on the Airport Extreme and all other devices (macs, printers) have no problem with password on the airport express.
I am starting to suspect that I will have to buy a separate Airport Extreme that I run at 2.4 ghz to run my slower (2.4 ghz "g") Macs, printers, and Blu-ray. But I shouldn't need to do this.
Before someone asks, yes, I have re-entered the password, checked and rechecked, turned everything off and back on. I'm very thorough in trouble-shooting. Just hope someone out there has encountered a similar problem. Or even better has set up a blu-ray wifi to connect to Airport Express.
Thanks!

OK, I've thrown in the towel on my WDS network running the Airport Express and the Airport Extreme. It worked fine until tried to add the Blu-ray wifi to the mix. (Some conflict between it and Airport Express just refused to be resolved.) That added a level of complexity that was crazy making, so I have sent for the new Airport Extreme with simultaneous dual-band--apparently my current model will not allow for simultaneous dual band connections. I bought it just before the new model came out in 2009.
I can only hope that I be able to have every device running on the Airport Extreme without the 2.4 ghz devices slowing down my 5 ghz system. That's the theory anyway. Anyone know if this really works as advertised? I hope so. I have spent days trying to get the blu-ray wifi to connect the Airport Express on my previous setup. I hope I have not paid a bunch more money just to buy another headache. Please say something encouraging;-)
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