Hard Drive that Won't Show Up Wirelessly

I've posted this elsewhere, but under a topic that was solved, so I'm trying my luck again here.
Up until the most recent update of AEBS firmware, I could access my hard drive, connected via a hub to the AEBS, from my wireless laptop G4.
Now, although the drive shows up under hard drives in the Airport Utility panel, it will not show up at all in the Airport Disk Utility. This has absolutely dumbfounded me.
For both computers connected directly to the AEBS via ethernet cable, the drive shows up and can be accessed.
I note as well that, on the laptop, when I choose "My" Computer, it shows my hard drive and the Network as the only two choices, unlike the ethernet-connected machines.
I've toyed with activating Bonjour or some other process to get around this cloak of invisibility, but I don't feel competent to mess about with that without some friendly advice. While the Disk Utility indicates that I should be able to connect to the drive manually, I've yet to figure out just how that's done.
All advice appreciated.
Powerbook G4 laptop, 2G G5 CPU (ethernet)   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

Thanks to all those who responded to this question elsewhere in the forums. To those who reported similar problems after the most recent update of AEBS firmware, perhaps this will help you.
For me this situation seems to have solved itself. I updated the G4 Powerbook's OS to 10.4.10 from 10.4.9, and it immediately located the shared hard drive and now accesses it without any trouble.
I don't know if it's a question of requiring that you match the versions of the OS, but that did in fact solve my problem.

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