Disappearing Airport Express Stations from Admin Utility / Fontbook

I am struggling with a strange phenomenon: I am using OS 10.3.9 on a Powerbook G4 12“, 2 Airport Express Stations (one as a basestation connected to a DSL Router, and the other one as an Airtunes station (using iTunes 6.01). Over the past weeks, I have repeatedly had problems like disappearing Airtunes connection, invisible Airport Express Stations in the Airport Admin Utility, and disappearing fonts from the fontbook (only the system fonts remain). The internet connection was always working, inspite of the invisible Airport stations (they still could be configured by entering their IP-addresses).
I have twice „reset“ the fontbook acc. to the X-Lab instructions (http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/undofontbook.html) including permission repair, cache cleaning, etc. However, after a couple of days (or new starts, I am actually not quite sure?) the problem has come back. The same with the Airport stations and Airtunes: Switching between different accounts in the network preferences (I am also using the Powerbook in other networks) I have usually managed to get the Airtunes connection back, but again usually only for some time. Today I have followed recommendations from the airport express discussion forum, hardly resetting both Airport stations and creating a new network with the Airport Set-up Assistant. The stations were again visible in the Admin Utility, Airtunes was back again, and, strange enough, all my fonts were back again (without removing any preferences, etc.).
However, after a shutting down the Powerbook and restarting it, the same problems are back: everything is gone again. I would really appreciate some hints what could be the reasons, and what might be a lasting solution.

Thanks again for your comments. Strange enough, after having newly configuring the network (IP-adresses were 10.0.0.1 for the basestation, 10.0.02 for the Powerbook, 10.0.0.3 for the Airtunes station) and then restarting the computer, everything was back to normal (airports visible, airtunes working, fonts visible). Alas, however when I again restarted, everything was gone again. (The ADSL-modem and router I am using is a SpeedTouch 530).
Acc. to your comment, I then changed to "distribute IP-adresses" in the Admin Utility and selected the 10.0.1.1 adress range (The basestation now uses 10.0.1.1, the Powerbook 10.0.1.2 and the Airtunes 10.0.1.3). Restarting resulted in everything visible again. I am now hesitant to restart again.
Anything you can recommend so that I better understand what is going on? I still think that there must be some relation between the network settings and the fontbook issue.

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