Can't configure my Snow base station after Hard Reset

Hello -
I am having trouble configuring my Snow base station after a hard reset.
Airport Admin Utility will not see or connect to it.
I get the error:
"The AirPort admin utlity was unable to
read the configuration file of the selected
base station.
An error occurred while reading the configuration."
any suggestions?
I need to completely erase it and give it a different configuration altogether.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards - Dustin

I can only offer sympathies. I have exactly the same problem.
A question:
1) After a hard reset of the ABS according to the procedures in Articles 106602 & 106685, at step 14 does Airport Admin(AA) find your ABS?
(I can reliably get to this point, however loading default software fails. I noticed that the Airport ID is zeroed! )
2) In AA have you tried connecting to 10.0.1.1 using your ABS password?
3) Can you create a c2c network? (I can connect my iMacs together reliably, so it is not a radio noise issue.)
I firmly believe this is a s/w issues somehow related to the recent upgrades. I only recenly bought my ABS, after replacing my Graphite for similar reasons. This is becoming unreasonablely time consuming and expensive.
I know this is a bit 'blah, blah', but I'm scratchng around too and would appreciate help! (I had to drill a hole in the wall to get 'hardwired' to the net, so I could get on here, this is not good!)
iMac 400Mhz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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