Can I add airport extreme(n) to my express network

I have a home network set up this way. Verizon DSL, Airport Express hooked up as main wireless router in my living room. I bought the new Airport extreme to put in my office where I have a computer with a printer and external hard drive, but there is no phone jack/dsl modem in that room. I want to add the Extreme to my current network, so all computers in the house can print and share the external harddrive I have ready to set up. I tried to add it multiple times last night, but it won't. I finds it briefly and then the extreme goes back to blinking yellow light.... Does the Extreme need to be the one hooked up the the LAN line? or can I have the Express be the main station? Thanks -doug
iMac20 intel duo   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

I did all this and still having trouble with setup. It seems the airport setup software that came with the iMac lets you configure alot more than the software ont he disk that came with the Airport Extreme. yet the software that came with the iMac says it isn't compatible with the new Extreme. I changed setting on my express to be WDS but still can't join the two. The iMac likes to awknowledge only one at a time. Next i'm considering conecting both the the dsl and setting up two networks and joining them. After both are connected, unplug the extreme and see it is still networks with the expres.. what do you think?
iMac20 intel duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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