Extend Airport Extreme N (2nd gen) with Express g?

Seeing if there is any combo here that will work - I had to move my Extreme to the front of the house and want to extend my signal.  I have two old Airport Express g (first gen I believe).  They will let me configure via old Airport Utility to extend the network (setup asks if I'd like to extend the network, I say yes and I think it's just setting up Airtunes despite what the wizard looks like), and in the utilty it looks like everything is hunky dory but I suspect nothing is extended when I do the stand near it test.  I tried to set up a WDS network, but the main base station generates errors when set up as main in the WDS following the docs (no other participants found error, although as the main it shouldn't need the others but whatever).  Is there any combo of mixing the N Exteme and G Expresses that will work to extend the network?  Or am I just out of luck unless I buy a new express?

Well I have solve my problem for today, untill the next one tomorow by moving the base station closer to the Express.
I have found the performance of the new Extreme Station vastly inferior, in "G", mode to competitor's equipment such as Netgear Rangemax 240.
It seems that we all overestimate the range of this equipment thanks to our blind trust in Apple products, for this one divide your best gess by two.
Even as an Apple fanatic since the first Apple on the market, I am quite disapointed with issue.
In some ways, it recalls me of the darkest era of the MacPepsi OS 8.6.
Very sad and frustrating…

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