Connecting my XP laptop to Airport Express at the same time as my iBook

My XP laptop recognizes my apple network. Everything works up until the point where i'm asked to provide the WEP password. When i type in my password, it doesn't work and lets me know that it must be in either "5 alphanumeric characters or 10 hexadecimal digits" format.
I think I simply need to reconfigure my Airport Express, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to reconfigure it so that it will accept the connection from my windows laptop.
Please please help before I got out and buy something I don't need. Thank you very much in advance.

I had this same problem with my 2wire gateway when I switched to Mac. My roommate has XP, and two PC's with Linux. When the Mac was added to the network, it all went to ****. It has something to do with Apple's WEP configuration. I think. My roommate is the guru, not me. We set it up with WPA, and my MBP worked flawlessly,. Although XP and Linux could connect, they were both plagued by random drops and poor performance.
We tried the Linksys (IIRC) and it did the same thing.
To make a very long story short, we bought the Extreme draft-N and put it in WPA. Mandriva, Sabayon, XP and OS X are all able to connect to the internet and playing nice with each other (with a few exceptions)....

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