Firewall in Leopard is hard to understand

I am having a little difficult setting up firewall ever since I acquired my new iMac recently. I guess I am used to the easy way Tiger did it. Anyhoo.
Here is my set up. Internet is wired to my old Snow Airport Base. Gigabit switch is wired to the Snow Airport Base. I wired my network attached storage, iMac, and Airport Extreme (Pre N) in bridged mode. Everything is working fine although I find it silly the new Airport Utility does not configure the old Snow Base. What is awesome is my MacBook can use Airport Extreme and iPhone and other old machines can use Snow Airport for internet and network access.
Here is the problem. I am trying to put my iMac behind a firewall. I don't know if I have to do it. iMac is already wired to a router with built in firewall. I digress.
When I put iMac in "Set access for specific services and applications" mode under Firewall tab in Security, I cannot access Snow Airport in Airport Admin Utility. In fact, it does not even appear.
When I put iMac back in "Allow all incoming connections" mode, Snow Airport reappears. Other Airport base is accessible at all times.
I think this also affects my network attached storage (SMB). Anyone have any information that can help me? I am really concerned with any security issues although I would like to put my iMac in "Set access for specific services and applications" mode.

A firewall is already set with whatever firewall settings you have on a router or airport base station.
Setting up a second firewall, can and often does create problems.
The Snow (Dual Ethernet) is only available for configuration with an ethernet cable attached.
AirPort Base Station (Dual Ethernet) : How to reload software from Mac OS X
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106685
Follow the instructions and you should be able to run the Airport Admin Utility.
You will never be able to run the old Airport Setup Assistant with that airport in this configuration whether direct connected or not, only the Airport Admin Utility.

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I have just bought a new 27in Imac with all possible upgrades.
I have an old 2.2 MBP running snow leopard. I used carbon copy clone to make a bootable clone.
It will boot from the hard drive on my MBP ( the one I cloned it from) but it will not boot on my Imac.
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2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
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About logical system, We can say ERP send IDoc to XI , and XI convert it to file. and then the logical system name should be XI client's. But in XI, we always define business system or business service for other systems not XI itself. And service FTP2 must have a logical system for IDoc related scenarios , others(RFC,JDBC, file and etc) don't need.
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You are try to understand this bit complicated concept is on right track.
Let me explain this step wise.
1. About logical system, We can say ERP send IDoc to XI , and XI convert it to file. and then the logical system name should be XI client's. But in XI, we always define business system or business service for other systems not XI itself. And service FTP2 must have a logical system for IDoc related scenarios , others(RFC,JDBC, file and etc) don't need.
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Here XI is just middelware so While sending the IDOC from R/3 to XI you need the Logical system with Receiver Port as directing to XI client. The Receiver Logical system is not imp. incase of sender IDOC.
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2. if ftp2 use logical system of XI, then another system can't use it. and maybe it can't work, business system can't use XI's logical system
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Yes, Once you have used the Logical system name in any of the Business service or Business system then you can't re-use it. This makes possible the feature of Re-usability. You can create the multiple communication channels under this Business service/system
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