Help! Airport Express for PC not recognized

I'm trying to connect a PC to airport express to use augioengine 5A speakers via wireless.
I've installed the airport software on the PC, plugged in the airport to the wall outlet, and opened AirPort Utility, but the screen is stuck on scanning. It can't find the airport device and when I click rescan, it still won't find it.
How do I get this to work? I would like to connect the airport to the existing network on the PC computer.
Suggestions are welcome.

When the airpoirt is plugged into the wall it is flashing amber.

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Support for WPA requires Mac OS X v10.3 or later. Use of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) reduces the maximum number of network users. When joining an existing wireless network, AirPort Express supports only WPA-Personal. WPA2 requires a Mac computer with an AirPort Extreme Card and Mac OS X v10.3 or later.
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Hello,
I apologize if there have been threads on this before, but I searched and searched to no avail. Here is my problem:
I recently purchased the new 15" MacBook Pro... LOVE IT! I also purchased an Airport Express for wireless. I have SBC Yahoo! DSL with a 2Wire modem w/built-in firewall. With Apple Care help, I have been able to connect just fine to the internet via the Airport Express. However, after my computer goes into sleep mode (overnight, for example)... when I "wake up" the computer and try to get onto the net or access my email, I cannot... usually there is a box that appears on my desktop that says someting along the lines of cannot find my connection.
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And should the little box that says ALLOW THIS NETWORK TO BE EXTENDED (located under the Network Name be clicked?
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