IMac + Airport Snow as wireless bridge?

I have an older iMac G5 that I have connected in one of the rooms in the house to the wireless router in the front of the house. My issue is that any rooms past the iMac are unable to connect to the original router in the front. My question is can I use the imac as something like a bridge? I want to take the wireless signal going to the mac, and create a new network with the snow base station, using the internet from the imac (via crossover cable)
Something like this
DSL modem > iMac (wireless via built in card) > crossover cable > Snow base station > other devices

Oops, nevermind. I found the answer right where I should have looked first.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1515?viewlocale=en_US#2
Thanks anyway!

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