Hard drive on Airport Extreme

I just tried to add a La Cie 1TB USB hard drive to my airport Extreme. I've been through the install program several times, but my drive has never shown up on my desktop.
Help appreciated.

I have a 20" Intel OS 10.5.6,DSL modem,Airport Extreme Base,LaCie 500GB USB HD. I made 4 partitions 3 mac HFS, 1FAT32 since I used boot camp to install my old Win XP. With the HD connected to the Mac, all is well and even backed up 1056 using Superduper.
With the HD connected to the AEBs,airport utility-manual-disks (in the disks window the HD and all partitions are there)-file sharing- secured shared disks with APE PW. That said, still nothing on the desktop.

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