HELP! Problem accessing usb hard drive on airport extreme

Hi all,
Hopefully someone can help me.
I have a Macbook Pro (2009).  Recently put on Lion and have had no problems until now.   Last night, the computer could not see the USB HD that is plugged into our Airport Extreme that it was using for the time machine backups.  HOWEVER, our Macbook (white 2007) which is also running Lion has no problems accessing the HD! The Airport is working fine as we can still access email, the internet and my NAS drive (D-link 323).
So, I went into the Airport utility and clicked on the Drive section... the drive is shown on the airport and the settings are all set for sharing (etc. etc.)... but in finder I cannot access any of the drives on the airport... I just get a "Connection Failed" and then a pop-up saying that there was an error connecting to the airport, check the address and if the problem persists check with the admin.
This is what I have done so far....
1. Rebooted the airport (using Airport utility)... didn't work.
2. Turned off the USB HD and turned it back on.... didn't work.
3. Verified and fixed the permissions on the macbook pro... didn't work.
4. Turned everything off and then restarted everything again... didn't work.
5. Compared all the settings on our macbook for the Airport extreeme (using the airport utility) and the macbook pro... everything was identical nothing needed to be changed.
6. Tried to connect to our macbook using the macbook pro... came up with a "Connection Failed"... HOWEVER I was able to share the screen?!?!?!?!?
7.  I pinged the airport... no problems pining...its only has problems connecting to the drives on the airport.
The airport is shown under the "shared" section of finder along with my NAS dirve (D-link 323) and the macbook... I can access the D-link with no issues but nothing else. 
Please help... this is very frustrating and It dosnt make sence as to why it can see the drive but wont let me access it.
Thanks!

A little update... spoke to Apple Care... they said that this happens and then are aware that this happens, but had no answers how to fix.
Unfortunately not much help... anyone else have any information?
Please help!

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