Cannot connect wireless to my timecapsule.

I am configuring my timecapsule for the first time.
I have been using an airport snow that has worked fine. But now I own a MacBook pro 3.06 Intel core 2 duo running 10.6.3 and thought I'd give it another try so I could use timemachine.
I can't get my laptop to connect wirelessly anymore.
When I set up the timecapsule I had it use all of the old settings. I'm using a linksys cable modem on Cox cable. I've tested and reset everything. The cable modem works since I am obviously online. The ethernet cable works, since I am obviously online.
But when I disconnect the ethernet cable from the laptop and connect it to the correct port on the timecapsule is cannot establish an interent connection.
The timecapsule is working. I get a green light when the ethernet cable is connected. And the "fan" is all black. But when I got into the network preferences it says self-assigned IP. I've tried creating a new network and reconfiguring the automatic. Nothing is working.
I'm getting tired of crouching in front of the TV because my ethernet cable isn't long enough. That's what a wireless network is for.
Everything seems to be working properly except the timecapsule. And when I run all of the diagnostics, etc. the only suggestion I get is to call my internet service provider. I know for a fact that that is not the problem. It's an apple problem. And if I call them they'll only refer me to apple. Who will refer me back to the isp.
I bought my laptop last Thanksgiving so I doubt my airport card has died in the last 6 months. So it's not the laptop.
That still leaves the timecapsulel. Greenlight. Full fan. Still no connection.
I'd welcome any suggestions.

Done all that.
Have full bar fan.
Appears to connect.
But then the bars go away and it grays out with an exclamation mark in the middle.
I've spent hours on this. I need to get this thing to work because without it I have no time machine back up. And I was hacked last night and ALL of my mail was deleted from my mobileme account. I can't back up and I have no mail. Now I have no internet either because I disconnected the snow to try to get the capsule working again. It still doesn't. Right now I'm crouched in front of the cable modem connected with an ethernet cable.
I can't live like this.
I've renamed it. I've changed the passwords. I've deleted the network names and made new ones and selected the capsule and put in the password and applied it and it still doesn't work.
What is it with this thing? Apple is supposed to be so simple a child could set it up. I've set up plenty of apple stuff. I set up my old Snow and it worked fine until I messed it up trying to configure the timecapsule. Now the Airport Utility can't even find the Snow anymore.
I need a step by step, simplified for a moron, detailed description of what I can do to get this running without deleting the one backup I have on the time capsule. Because that is my ONLY chance of recovering my e-mail.

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