Help- can't connect airport to Netgear router?

I posted yesterday then thought I had solved the problem but I hadn't so here goes again:
I've never used Airport before, so i'm green
I have a G4 sawtooth tower connected to a Netgear wireless router MR814v2.
I don't think I have an airport card in the tower unless it came as orig equipment.
Anyway 2 G4's ( both OS 10.3.9) are connected to the router by ethernet cable and a PC laptop has a Netgear wireless card that also connects it.
The 2 G4's share internet, file sharing and printer access - no problem.
The PC laptop shares internet, but I've been unable to figure out how to get it to share printer or files - not too big a deal -
Now I just bought a 1.5GHz Powerbook that has Airport Extreme in it (running Tiger) (second hand no apple care anymore). I hit the little icon in the upper left corner for airport, and it shows my Network - Good.
But when I click on the network it asks for a WEP Password - I have no idea what Password to use.
I've tried everything connected to my router that I can think of, everything related to adminstrative passwords and I always get - "error connecting to network" ( or something like that)
Do have to set something else up, create a password, or is it another problem?
I found on the netgear website that I needed to download a firmware update for the router to make it work with airport extreme.
OK I did that, still doesn't work.
I can connect fine to my neighbors linksys network that doesnot require a password.
Also do I need to set up another email address for this machine?
I can't log into the same email address on 2 machines at the same time can I?

Open the Netgear configuration page. Go to the wireless settings. On my Netgear, the encryption password is visible.
If the password isn't visible on yours, simply change the password to something new.
Also do I need to set up another email address for this machine?
No
I can't log into the same email address on 2 machines at the same time can I?
Sure. If you are using an IMAP account and have the settings to leave the messages on the server everything will work well. If you are using a POP account it can become confusing because the first one to check mail will get messages and remove them from the server. So one may see messages that the other doesn't.

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