IChat won't work on mixed wired/wireless home network

This is probably a stupid obvious question, but I can't figure it out, and it's late.
My wife just got a new Macbook for Christmas. Yay! I still have an old old G4. Boo, and an even older iBook (clamshell). She also got an Airport Express so she can network wirelessly.
Trouble is, it's a network of one. I can't figure out what button to push so that I can get her onto the home network so that, say, we can iChat via bonjour or she can transfer her files off this computer and all that fun stuff.
I know my way around a network pretty well, but wireless is a bit of mystery to me, so any suggestions'll be appreciated.
Merry Boxing day, and good deals.

Figured it out.
For those of you with the same problem:
Go to Airport Admin Utility. Select Airport device, and click configure.
Select network.
Uncheck Distribute IP addresses. This forces the network back to the router. With one computer it worked. Can't speak to two, though, but should.

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