AirTunes not working, no Music tab in Airport Admin Utility

Suddenly today after a year and a half of use, I noticed that I had no remote speakers in iTunes. A trip to the Airport Admin Utility revealed no music tab. After resetting the AE (hard, and factory default), I get the same result, no Music tab in Admin Utility and no AirTunes remote speakers in iTunes. USB printer and WDS work fine. Anyone else experience this?
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I have the latest version of Admin Utility (4.2) and the latest version of AE firmware (6.3). It has been working forever, I listen to streaming audio through AE every day. It is very odd that the music tab is missing from the admin utility when I try to configure the Airport Express. Like I said I tried every reset option and reloaded the firmware but I don't know what else to try. I would hate to give in to the fact that it's a hardware issue...

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All latest s/w, etc. for AEBS, AX, Pmac, and PB.
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iFelix

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I know this is not a new topic, but I can't find an answer in any of the other threads. With other users the problem seemed to "magically" go away. I have not been so lucky yet.
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Is there is a cabled or wireless network to which these two Airport Express devices are connected. Are they cabled to that network, or connected wirelessly?
Or, is Airport Express 1 your network's "base station", and if so is your cable/DSL modem also connected to it? If that is the case, how does Airport Express 2 (which is in "bridge mode") communicate with Airport Express 1.
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something appears to prevent your ae to join you LinkSys LAN. And you shouldn't have to enter any IP adress.
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I have searched these forums and the internet for a long time for a solution to this problem only to find that this is a common problem for a lot of people. Basically, all of the sudden iTunes didn't list my wireless speakers as a possible output for my music. Thinking a setting had been changed or something I logged into the Airport Admin Utility only to find that the "Music" tab was completely removed. I restarted the AE multiple times, performed multiple firmware upgrades/downgrades, and reset the entire device to no avail.
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Anyways, if you have a solution, please post it here (I know there are other postings but none recent). {Post edited by Host}

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I choose it, plug the AX into the stereo but the light never turns green, and itunes says it can't find the AX.
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Would you please confirm for me which of the following two network configurations, 1 or 2, that you currently desire...
1) DSL/Cable modem > (Ethernet cable) > [WAN port] Internet router [LAN port] > (Ethernet cable) > [Ethernet port] AX [Audio port] > (audio cable) > stereo, or
2) DSL/Cable modem > (Ethernet cable) > [Ethernet port] AX [Audio port] > (audio cable) > stereo
...or something else?
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I have a feeling the problem is with my G5 - since it’s the only one (of course my music library is on it primarily). I redownloaded firmware and software for all - reupdated and factory reset the Airport Expresses and the Airport Admin Util.
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settings
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