Gateway Notebook PC stopped connecting to Airport Express

My older Gateway Notebook PC worked fine with the Airport Express until some time in March, 2008. Now, although it goes through the process of trying to connect, it fails to make the connection. The Apple products are working fine.
I see in the forum many threads with this problem, but cannot find one with the problem solved.

I was really hoping that someone would have an idea why my itunes has my base station (airport express) as a choice for speakers, but when I click on that choice it never connects. this connection was fine for several years.

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