Express as bridge between ethernet-linked computer and Extreme network?

I know similar questions have been asked before, but I just wanted to double-check before buying an Airport Express. So, thanks for any help ...
I currently have a wireless network at home, facilitated by an Airport Extreme (the most recent model, with internal modem).
I also have a PowerMac G4 ("mirror door drive"), which is too old to take an Airport Extreme card.
The PowerMac and the Extreme are too far apart to easily connect by ethernet.
I was hoping to buy an Airport Express which I could connect to the PowerMac via ethernet, and therefore have my computer talk to the Extreme network via the bridged Express. A bit like having an external wireless "card", instead of an internal one.
I believe this is possible, if both Express and Extreme have "WDS" enabled? And that it'll work despite the fact that Apple tech support habitually claim that it doesn't?
Also, if it does work, does anyone know if my computer should display the modem dial-up "uptime" when connected? I know that computers that are wirelessly connected to the Extreme DO display this, but if a computer is connected to it via ethernet, it doesn't (which doesn't make sense to me, but there you go...)
Thanks very much for your help on this! And sorry if this is a repeat question. Even the Airport Express is a lot of money, if it turns out not to work as I hoped.
Having spoken to Australian Apple tech support several times, I get the impression that they're not even based on the same continent as me, and seem to be bluffing that they can even understand me fully. So I'm afraid I don't have much confidence that what they're telling me is true.
Cheers,
Wayne

Currently I connect directly to an Airport Extreme
via ethernet, and that doesn't seem to facilitate
that, for some reason, even though computers that
connect to it wirelessly can see the uptime.
Missed that.
Running a non-Airport Mac and using dial-up internal modem on the AEBS and can not hang up
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/1005.html
The Java utility has a timer as well.
iFelix

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