Disk utility no longer working after 5.3.1 upgrade - urgent!

After all of my talk about not becoming an early adopter, this happens - tonight I upgraded my AirPort software to 5.3.1, but after resolving a brief episode of not being able to connect to my AEBS, I was able to restore my Internet access. What I haven't been able to do is mount my USB hard drives. They are visible when I open AirPort Utility, but no matter how many times I try to adjust the settings - changing passwords, even allowing guest access - the hard drives do not stay mounted. The moment I click on one of them, I get the spinning wheel and then the "disconnected from server" error message, and poof, they disappear. What's more, I tried to "downgrade" back to 5.2.1, but I'm not allowed to. I have more than 300 GB of files that I can't gain access to, so this is a serious problem, especially since I have two computers. Help is urgently needed.

I suggest you get a proper NAS with a USB port and hang your disks off that - solved all my problems...
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Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
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applejack AUTO
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