How to get an Airport Extreme to work behind a wired Router????!!!!!!

Hey all major issue I am at my inlaws and they have a cable modem going into wired linksys router in their basement where the cable comes in and then distributing out through the house ethernet to key areas. Recently they have gotten wireless laptops and want to setup their airport extreme off of one of these ports so they can sit out on their deck and use the net.
I tried the auto-configuration and get no internet connectivity, occasionally it comes through at like 4 k/s(using the WAN port, the Lan port gives no connection like it should). If I plug directly into the same port I get 8MB down and 1MB up, so I am confident its not the ethernet coming to the location.
Additionally, if i take the extreme downstairs and run it form the cable modem and do the autosetup it works beautifully as well.
So obviously the autosetup isnt working for the Airport running behind the router why? I have tried to muss with the settings, run it in bridge mode and such but to no avail.
Any advice on how to do this? The base is updated to its latest firmware 5.7.

I have been using an AEBS connected to one port of my D-Link Router for years. 2 months ago I have upgraded to OS 10.5 and have had no problems with having wireless computers connecting. I just decided to change my Security to WPA and after the Airport Utility (V.5.3.2) did the settings UPDATE, I haven't been able to connect via WIFI. I had all WIFI IP address be in the 10.0.1.1 range, and now I have tried everything I can think of to get it to work like I did but no luck.
I should mention that my router is set for static IP because of webcasting and other requirements.
I have searched and asked and can't solve the problem.
Mike

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