Can't configure Snow Base Station - error updating configuration.

I recently found a cheap Airport Snow Base Station to use on a trip I'm taking next week. I'll be at a lake house with no broadband, only dial-up capability. I thought if I could at least go wireless, it would be more bearable, so I got the Snow Base Station since my Express nor my Extreme Base Station have modems.
I downloaded the Airport Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow, and did a hard reset on the base station. It shows up in the utility as 00-03- etc. with IP address of 192.42.249.13. When I click Configure, it says the base station has been reset and is currently not configured. I click OK to upload software to the base station, it asks for my administrator password then after about 12 seconds, it comes back and says "An error occurred while updating the configuration."
Any suggestions? It's connected via ethernet to the LAN port, it says the base station version is currently 4.0.2.
Thanks for any assistance.

I've managed to resolve the error code by the following:
1. Turn Off Airport Card
2. Unplug Power Cable to Time Capsule
3. Disconnect Ethernet Cables
4. Wait 30secs
5. Plug in Power Cable to Time Capsule and allow unit to power up.
6. Connect via Ethernet to the ethernet ports on the Time Capsule
7. Airport Utility should know locate, but importantly allow you access to configure Manual set-up
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