Can no longer find my Time Capsule.

My Time capsule, that I bought back of last year in April has been working flawlessly, until a couple of days ago. Now, it con no longer be found on the network.
It is connected via an Ethernet cable and is in another room (it's connected to my iMac, running OS X 10.5 through a router that is working and letting everything else on my network see everything else. ).
I have reset my Time Capsule and the solid green light comes on.
It has been updated with all the latest firmware as it has come out.
WHAT ON EARTH DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET IT SO IT CAN BEEN CONNECTED TO FROM MY IMAC?

Did this happen after updating to 7.4.1?
I know when I updated my TC to 7.4.1 it disappeared on me. I had to revert to previous firmware.
This also happened when I updated and original Airport Extreme (first model released). Had to revert it to 7.3.2.
Every Airport I updated to 7.4.1 became invisible. Had to revert each one.

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