Figured Out Why AirDisk Shows No Files/Folders

I think I figured it out. Maybe I'm just an idiot or something, but I have Windows XP and gigantic music library. (About 100gb). When I plugged my hard drive into my Airport Extreme, I couldn't figure out why all of my home videos and pictures were showing up, and none of my music was visible.
Someone on this forum suggested that you transfer all of your files to your hard drive over the airport network. Which seems to work.
Until I came across folders with '&' signs in them. As soon as I would add a folder containing an ampere sign, everything in the folder that I was adding additional folders to would disappear.
I noticed this only happened with the ampere sign in the folder name. It doesn't necessarily happen with ampere signs in the file names.
I have Windows XP and this is fixing my problem. I'm going through and manually changing all of the ampere signs to the word 'and', and it's solving one of my problems.
Like I said, maybe I'm just a retard, but this is working for me. I'm still having problems with my Airport consistently dropping my connections (both ethernet and wireless) to my computers. If anyone has any information on why this might be happening, I'd be happy to know about it.
Old post about connection dropping / disappearing files:
Hi,
I'm more than frustrated with this product. I'll try to make this brief.
I purchased the new AEBS looking to be able to share a printer and an external hard drive between 3 computers. Two PCs and a G4 imac.
My problems began when I found that I couldn't see the 250gb of music, pictures, and home videos I have stored on my external. The first place I went to solve the problem was here. I found that many people have the same problem as me and the problem doesn't seem to have an official fix.
The only way I could find to remedy this issue was to follow advice given to others on this forum-- simply transfer files to the external drive over the AEBS network.
I'm doing that. I've been doing it for a few days. I'm only about halfway through because I'm getting a transfer rate of .5-1.5mbps. Which I find to be rather insane.
Also for the past few days, the Airport has been dropping its connection with all of my computers. Spontaneously. Not just the internet connection, everything. Even though the AEBS is displaying a green light, and a wireless connection looks to be available, the Airport Utility tells me that no AEBS is available to connect to.
The only way for me to remedy this is to unplug the AEBS and to plug it back in.
Remember me mentioning that I'm trying to transfer 250gb at around 1mbps over this network just to be able to USE the airdisk feature? Imagine doing that with the connecting continually dropping. Several times a day. In the middle of a 4 day long transfer. (Mind you, I'm connected via ethernet connection. And it's still dropping.)
This is ridiculous. I've contacted Apple support, they made me reset the fricken thing. Did nothing, as expected.
I find it insane that I have to spend 4 days transferring files from my hard drive over my Airport network just to be able to use them. And I find it even more insane that I have to unplug and plug in my AEBS each time I'd like to use it because at some point over the course of the day, it dropped my connection and it never came back.
I'm using WPA/WPA Personal, tried WEP, and it still drops.
Any advice?
Windows XP Pro

This is also happening with other strange characters not common to the english language, like the ae symbol, I've discovered.
But I'm still having weird issues with the airport dropping connections. I called apple support and was told to simply reset the AEBS. It did nothing, solved no problem I had and that was all they could do for me.
I'm still experiencing problems with the airport dropping my connections with my computers. As a matter of fact, the airport utility is currently reporting that there is no base station within range, yet it's allowing me to connect to the wireless network created by the base station and I'm still somehow able to surf the internet. It just claims there's no base station within range.
Is anyone else experiencing problems like this one? Does it seem like a problem worth an exchange? Or is this just a shotty quick release, fix later situation common to many AEBSs?

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Revision: 14337
Revision: 14337
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-02-22 12:31:24 -0800 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010)
Log Message:
Revert this file from mirroring PARB change 14431 until I can figure out why it is causing a graphic test failure.
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Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-02-22 12:31:24 -0800 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010)
Log Message:
Revert this file from mirroring PARB change 14431 until I can figure out why it is causing a graphic test failure.
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Bugs:
Reviewed By:
Tests run: checkintests
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