DSL Modem to Router to Airport Express ??

I am trying to setup a network at home. I recently bought a D-Link DI-604 wired router to plug into my DSL modem so I could connect my eMac with an ethernet cable and my MacBook Pro with Airport Express. I have it setup so the DSL modem is connected to the D-Link router and then their are two cables running from the router. One is going to the emac directly and the other is going to the Airport express.
If I don't use the router then I have no problems surfing the net with the DSL modem to Airport Express on my MacBook Pro. The problem I'm having is when I split the connection with the D-Link router. After running the connection wizard built into the router, I can surf the net on both computers temporarily but when I turn both computers off and then back on again a few hours later I've lost the net connection and I have to reboot the router and run the wizard again.
I didn't do much research before I set this up because I assumed it wouldn't be a problem. However, now I'm beginning to suspect that connecting a router (DLink) to another router (Airport Express) might be the problem.
If anyone can address this issue I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
MacBook Pro 2Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hey there Other Tim,
Welcome to the forums!
I'd recommend setting up the D-Link router with only the eMac connected. Once it's up and running, join the Airport express to it. I would recommend resetting the AEX:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108044
Once you've got it going, go into Airport admin in the Utilities folder, click configure, and disable "Distribute IP addresses" under the Network tab.
I'm pretty sure that will work.

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