An iMac, 2 PCs, 2 printers, an AirPort Extreme & a partridge in a pear tree

This as probably been answered somewhere else. Call me lazy for not looking. Anyway...
I've got an new iMac, 2 peecees, 2 USB printers, a DSL modem and a LinkSys router. I want to introduce an AirPort Extreme unit to wirelessly connect the iMac, and maybe someday a iBook or Powerbook, into my home network. I would also want the printers hooked into the USB port on the AirPort. Which setup would work better:
1)
DSL modem
AirPort -> printers
router
peecees
2)
DSL modem
router -> AirPort -> printers
peecees
iMac (iSight) 20" Mac OS X (10.4.3) 2PCs, 2Printers & a cat

Doesn't a router also act like a hub/switch?Many routers have a built-in switch to allow you to connect multiple Ethernet devices. However a router provides NAT and DHCP services, etc. that a switch does not.
The AEBS is a router. Adding another router complicates the network needlessly. You could make it work but you would have to configure the Linksys so that the DHCP server is disabled. Then connect everything (including AEBS) to the LAN side of the Linksys.

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