Can I use an iMac as a repeater?

I live in an old house with plaster/lathe walls, and the Airport reception is not that good. I have a Airport Snow basestation hooked up to a cable modem downstairs, and an iMac G3 with an airport card upstairs that the family uses. The problem is that my G4 laptop cannot get good airport reception in some of the rooms upstairs.
Is it possible to use the upstairs iMac as a repeater for the base station?. If so, any suggestions as to how to configure?

You're correct, jshock. The built-in AirPort card cannot act as a relay base station. There are stand-alone base stations that will do this (including various Apple AirPort Base Station models, as well as some from other vendors), but the built-in AirPort card cannot do this.
Your best bet is to get an additional base station of some kind and position it somewhere between the main base station and where you want to use the PowerBook. Make sure this base station support WDS (Wireless Distribution System) since not all of them do.

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