Can't change Airport Extreme settings using WPA2 Enterprise

I have a 4th Gen Airport Extreme Base Station that is running 7.6.1 firmware and I've updated the Airport Utility to 6.0 and OS X Server to 10.7.3
I use WPA2 Enterprise using the Radius Server set up from the Server admin tools in Lion Server. I am using my CA signed certificate for the server as my server-side cert. I can connect fine to the wireless network with all my idevices and my MacBook Pro, but whenever I use Airport Utility to amend settings of the Base Station e.g. Back to my Mac, I cannot make updates.
Whenever I click 'Update' I get the following error - 'Invalid value' The value for "Password" is invalid. When I click Review Settings, it takes me to the Shared Secret settings for the connection, but as far as I'm concerned this never needs to be known or changed.
Any ideas?

I have the same problem.. Airport utility 6.0 on 4th gen airport extreme and server 10.7.4.
DNS, Radius and Open Directory.
Any update on Airport Util results in "'Invalid value' The value for "Password" is invalid"
Only work around I've found like above is to set network mode to "off" under wireless tab. Update Airport Utility ... then remove/add my base station in Server admin under 'radius' 'base stations' ..
Really very annoying because what I actually want to change is the WPA/WPA2 to WPA2 ONLY.
By default when the base station is added in 'server admin' it sets it as WPA/WPA2 and there is no option to change or control this in 'server admin'... so basically I can not change this option.
I thought maybe that 'invalid' characters (for the airport) where being used by server admin when it generates the 'shared secret' .. so have tried changing to a very simple shared secret in 'airport utility' ... but I still get the same error - "The value for "Password" is invalid"
I will try downgrading to 5.6 but this really is very annoying especially as its a fault that has been allowed to rollover into 10.7.4 !!!!
Sort it out Apple!

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