How to connect a Windows computer to Base Station through Ethernet

I use Road Runner to connect to the internet. My setup is like this.
Roadrunner comes in to the cable modem. My cable runs from the modem to Airport Base Station. My MacBook Pro sees the base station fine and I'm accessing the internet wireless through Airport. All is well there.
My wife has a PC running Windows XP. I put my Airport Extreme disk in the PC and it loaded the software.
I have an ethernet cable plugged into the back of the PC running over to the Base Station to one of the ethernet ports. There is a green light beside the cable on the base station and also on the pc where the cable plugs into it - it blinks off and on on the PC.
Yet, when I get on the PC, I cannot access the internet. As you can probably already guess, I'm not too saavy on the PC. I have restarted the PC and tried all I know to do, but I still can't connect to the internet. I'm sure I'm missing a setting.
Can someone please "hold my hand" and walk me through how to set up the PC? I can't get very far on the PC going into Airport Utility because it says I don't have an internet connection.
Please help! (And talk to me like you're talking to a rock . . )
Thanks
Reggie

Check out the following iFelix article to see if it will help getting the Ethernet-connected PC to access the Internet: Connecting a XP PC to a Airport Network via the LAN port of the Airport Extreme Base Station

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