How do you ADD a Wireless Client PC to your Airport wLan?

If no security is enabled on the airport extreme 802.11n
PCs and Macs can get online easily
As soon as I enable WPA or WPA2
my macs can get online using the password
my PCs want a network Key of a specific length and hex format
and my airport utility app offers a phenomenally long 'equivalent' network password which does not make any of my PCs happy...
There is also an option of adding a wireless Client (a menu item in the airport utility app) but it closes the page as soon as I click on the menu item - I have NO ACCESS to this feature... something of a bug in airport utility version 5.2.2
the option is supposed to be add a Client using a PIN or simply add the first client to connect... NEITHER of these features work - the airport util software simply refuses to load that config page!
what gives?
how can we solve this?

Here's a wonderful piece of info that could help all of us...
Many wLan cards on the PC side don't seem to like WPA2
so you can resolve that issue by selecting WPA in the Airport utility
If you are using WPA / WPA2 on the airport extreme
then... go grab a PC
yes, I said a PC... ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE?
on the PC, you need to install the software that came with your Airport Extreme 802.11n... it looks the same as the SW on your trust Mac
but the thing is, it actually works when you want to ADD a new Wireless Client to your network.
now... when the PC has the software up and running and you can see your Airport extreme - ADD A WIRELESS CLIENT but don't use the PIN method - that method failed 5 out of 5 times I tried... Use the First Attempt method..
You will likely get an error but ignore it and go to the wLan connection app in your windows taskbar (bottom right side) you will want to VIEW Wireless Networks available to you.
If you see your airport, great, click the CONNECT button and the app will ask for your NETWORK KEY
Just enter your Wireless Password (the same one you used to configure your Airport Wireless Security on the WIRELESS page of the Airport Utility)
then click connect and voila... all 6 of my PCs were able to access via WPA
I am stunned that I wasted so much time with this
and concerned that Apple's software acts differently on the PC allowing me to ADD users whereas the Mac application simply would not load the page
in case you are wondering I used the following versions for this time wasting exercise
Mac: Airport Utility v5.2.2
PC: Apple Airport Utility for Windows v5.0
gosh what fun this has been
on the Mac ADDING a wireless Client failed (see my post earlier)

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