Can I add a Airport Express to my existing network without hardwiring it?

I want to extend the range and services of my existing home network.
It is wired on the first floor from the cable modem to a Cisco 4-port BEFSR41 router to a hub feeding a micro cell, several Windows boxes, a Roku2 box and an NAS.
One of the router ports feeds a  Netgear Wireless-N Access Point WN802T v2 mounted near the first floor ceiling.
That feeds enough signal through to the second floor but it's somewhat weak at the farthest rooms.
The wife won't let me run cat5e between floors or open up walls.
If I put an Airport Express box of some sort on the second floor above the WAP would the two talk to each other and extend my range out across the second floor (and provide print server functions as well)?
Can I then roam on both floors with her win7 laptop and my iPad seamlessly?
Once upton a time I could spell computer. I'm not sure anymore.
Any help at all would be appreciated. Thanks

I'd suggest you ask in the Airport forum. This being the iPad forum, this probably isn't the place where you'll be most likely to get quick and accurate responses. I know that an Airport Express can be used as a range extender for other Airport access points, but I don't know whether it will work with a Netgear. Netgear probably has something that will work if a Airport won't.
Regards.

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