Bad Connection with Airport & PC Laptop

I'm having a problem here. I have an old iMac. I bought it in 2000. It's one of the Special Edition Graphite models. I just got an (original) Airport card for it to try to make a wireless network so that I could connect using my work laptop (IBM Thinkpad). Since it's my work computer, I don't want to try to mess with settings on that computer (and I'm not sure I could anyway).
I really don't have much knowledge about this, so I'm just going to explain what I've done and what happened, and hopefully someone who knows more about this can figure out where I've gone wrong.
I installed the card, and then I have the Airport Icon up in the upper right corner next to the time. So I go in there and select Create Network. I name it and leave the channel on Automatic (11). Then I hit Show Options and check the box for Enable Encryption. I selected 128-bit and entered a 13 digit password made up of letters and numbers. (I also tried 40-bit with a 5 letter password.) Then I hit Ok.
Going into Internet Connect, it shows the network with a good signal level. When I look at Wireless networks on my PC, it lists it, although the icon next to it is two computers (for computer-to-computer) rather than an antenna-like icon that the other networks showing up have. I connect to it and it says that I have excellent signal strength. But when I try to go to a web page, I get nothing. hen I look at the status for the connection in the PC, it shows a lot of Packets sent, but none received. And Address Type is Automatic Private Address, while IP Address is 169.XXX.X.XXX. Subnet Mask is 255.255.0.0. There is nothing for Default Gateway, DNS Server, or WINS Server.
Can someone help me figure out how to fix this and connect properly? I would really appreciate it! If you need any more information, just ask.
Thanks!
Sk8Leigh
iMac 400 MHz PowerPC G3 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

That is the solution.
It is not possible for a Windows PC to connect to an encrypted software base station (a Mac sharing its internet connection via Airport).
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