Can't Get Airport Extreme To Dial-Up To ISP

Just bought 2 of the UFO style Airport Extremes. I set both of them up, one at my house and one at my girlfriend's. Used her iBook to set them up and went through the Setup utility and all seemed fine except when I tried to set up the APX to dial up to the ISP I can't get into the Airport Admin Utility. The setup guide tells me to use the Admin Utility to configure the dialing with the ISP's phone number, my username, password, etc., but when I open Admin Utility, it doesn't recognize the network and none of the blocks are activated so I can't enter any info. I also tried it with my friend's PC laptop and got the same thing. Both computers recognize the network but I can't connect to the ISP because I only have a dial-up connection and without getting into Admin Utility I can't configure the APX to dial up. Any ideas?

Duane, thanks for the response and sorry for my delay replying - I was out of town for several days. Your advice was right on. I did a hard reset and then set up the AirPort with an ethernet cable to my computer and was able to configure it correctly. Am a little miffed at Apple on this one as the manual was confusing. It says that the dial-up modem in the AirPort can be configured in AirPort Setup or Admin Utility but I didn't find that to be the case. Nothing in AP Setup allows input of the ISP's phone number and my username and password for the account. It has be to done in Admin Utility. Second problem was that my girlfriend's computer had taken a voltage spike during a storm a few nights earlier and I found out while configuring the AP that not only had the spike blown her internal modem but also did something to the wireless capability on her computer because it often wouldn't find the connection or it would lose it, even when the base station was only a couple of feet away. Thank again for your help.

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