Can't connect Airport Express with Extreme

So after 3 hours of working on this POS,I have gone to the boards in hopes that maybe someone can help me.
Situation:
Cable Modem---Airport Extreme---Airport Express---Stereo System
Computer: Windows XP
I can connect the airport extreme to the modem and get an internet connection. Airport Utility recognizes Airport extreme. No problem there.
Plug in airport express without it being tethered to a CAT 5 cable. Airport utility does not pick it up at all. The only way I can get the utility to recognize it is to tethered it to either the CAT 5 cable coming out of the modem or a cat5 cable coming out of the airport extreme. Both cases are not doable.
I want the airport extreme and the airport express to connect wirelessly. Try to setup WDS but the only way I could do that is to setup the extreme first, then disconnect the CAT 5 cable running to extreme and then reconnecting that cable to the express so that the Utility would pick it up. Set Up WDS but as soon as I reconnected the cable back to the Airport Extreme it stop working.
To add more problems, my computer will not connect wirelessly to the extreme without going to the blue screen(the one that says comp is unstable).
someone please help me.

Did you get a solution? I have a similar problem in that my i-Mac can successfully see and use the Extreme (with a Linksys modem as I am in UK where we need a modem in most instances) but the Express to which I wish to link nd play music is 'invisible'. Neither scanning through the task bar icon or using the Airport utility 'sees' the Express even though I can as I have now put it in the same room! It did see it briefly once but not since so have factory reset it and still it hides.
Any ideas?
Mervyn

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