Cant connect to Airport extreme with Macbook.

Hi all. I am a switcher. I bought my iMac G5 in Feb. I loved it so much I got a Macbook notebook recently cuss of the free iPod deal. Plus I missed being able to be moblie with my computer. I had a linksys router from my old wireless pc but found it very difficult to hook up with my Macbook. I called Linksys for support but because my router is 3 yrs old, they wanted me to pay 9.95 for help. I would have but I cant understand those people. I love apple products and after seeing so many rave reviews on the airport extreme I purchased it. The lure of the 5 min set up brought me in. Well here I am hours later and nothing. I did manage to get rid of the blinking amber light. I dont know how, just kept messing with the settings and whoa, it worked, nice green light. I am not good at setting up networks so I hope someone can give me some advice.
I tried to set up the printer and nothing. I gave up and moved on to the Macbook. It says it cant find the base station. I tried to manually add the network I created, again no luck. So am I missing something simple here?
iMac G5, macbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

broke down and called support. Turns out a setting was set to manual on macbook. Dont know why but glad its resolved. If all else fails call tech support, huh?

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