Grayed out airport menus

Not sure if this is the right place for this question.
I'm getting my internet connection on a network distributed by my time capsule. In the upgrade to airport admin 5.3, I seem to have lost the function of the drop down menu under the airport signal fan on the finder ribbon. It's grayed out. The airport fan is bold. But the menu under it is gray.
But I'm not entirely sure about cause and effect here. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem? Or if it is something I can easily adjust?

you mean in the sharing and permissions for the airport utility?
if so, yes. i'm running as admin there.
i can change networks through the system preferences menu. but not through the finder ribbon under the airport signal fan

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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:54:35 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Help please...All menus grayed out in CS4...
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