Another issue with Mac+PC & Airport Express network

Okey here's my problem. Yesterday i got my very first Mac (iBook 12") and i'm very happy about the computer in general. I also have Airport Express wireless base station. My other computer is table-PC and it has Planet WL-8314 PCI wireless card in it. I have ADSL-modem that i used with ethernet connection.
Now i want to connect Airport Express to ADSL so that both computers could get wireless internet connection and PC could be able to connect to speakers with Airtunes.
iBook connects to Airport Express very easily. No question there. But my Windows XP (service pack 2) PC is driving me crazy. I have configured the network using the admin utility from iBook. I've tried fully open network, use mac-address, WEP and WPA, but nothing works. I've installed Airport Express applications to windows as well but it doesn't connect.
Here is my current settings (Hope i can translate them correctly to english, i'm using finnish).
Encryption: WPA2 Personal
Encryption type: WPA OR WPA2
Connection: Ethernet
DHCP is in use
Share IP-addresses "checked"
by sharing one IP-address (DHCP and NAT) (use 192.168.1.1. addressing)
As i said i've disabled encryption, used mac-addresses and even made it fully public but nothing helps.
When i configure Airport Express from iBook my PC shows the network and does recognize the name of the network correctly and even if there is an encryption in use or not. If i'm using WPA and trying to connect, my PC asks for password but when i give the correct password it just stays stuck - nothing happens. The same thing when i try to connect without any encryption and passwords. It just tries and tries and tries... and fails.
This feels pretty hopeless. And the weird part is that yesterday i got it work for maybe an hour or so. Then Windows crashed and when it loaded again the same settings did not work anymore. So there are really weird things happening. And that period when it was working the admin utility worked in PC as well.
So any ideas what i could do. I'd really apreciate any help that can guide me to make my network fully work. So far it works perfect only with iBook - well better than nothing .
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

The connection i managed to establish last night didn't last very long. When i restarted Win XP, the connection was lost again. Anyway now i think i have solved the problem. All i had to do was to not set Windows XP take control over wireless network configure. This was done through unchecking one option. Then i could open wireless network adapter's own configuration tool and establish a connection to Airport Express wireless network.
So basically i had to punch Windows XP's native tools down in order to get the connection work at all. It just amazes me why such feature exists if it doesn't work.. Anyway i'm happy now and hope this discussion with myself in this thread might help some other as well .
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