Frustrated with my Airport devices

I am beyond frustrated at this point.
I have an Extreme and 2 expresses.  As I type, i can connect my Macbook pro and Ipad 2 to the home network.  However, I can't connect my cell phone, wife's PC or her IPOD touch to the network. 
On wife's PC and Ipod touch, the netowrk shows up with plenty of signal.  But when I enter the security code it says "Can't join the network." 
In addition, I am having lots of problems with the Express set ups. 
None of these problems arose until after I upgraded firmware. 
now, as I typed this, the PC can't even see the network anymore but my Macbook pro has never lost signal.  This is driving me nuts.

Without knowing all the details of your setup its hard to help. But here's what I recommend.
Export all of your existing settings for each device into files via the airport utility.
Perform a factory reset of all the devices. (Push in the reset button while plugging the unit in and hold the reset button down for 10 seconds, then release)
Unplug all of your devices.
Start with the first device you'll be setting up as your main router. The one that is connected to your internet connection. Most likely it will be the Airport extreme. Without knowing which generation/model extreme you have I can't offer you much help other than to say to configure it to create a wireless network and enable connection sharing to Share a public IP address.
Then make sure that all of your client devices (PC's, iPads, iPod Touch, etc.) can connect wirelessly to this main router and access the internet.
Then you can start adding the 2 expresses.  If you post back with more details, I'll try and help you.

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