IMac connects but windows laptops stopped connecting

[This ismy first post, sorry if i don't have the rules and/or etiquette down...]
My setup is:
- Airport Extreme hooked up to DSL speedstream modem with SBC
- Win XP laptop w/built in wifi
- Win ME laptop w/wifi card (aerolan/asante)
- iMac G4
- Airport Express (to extend the range of my extreme)
Sorry this is a long story...my network was working fine but my Win XP laptop has had flakey wifi problems so one day i tried to connect my DSL modem directly into the laptop. This actually made my DSL connection to stop working. A tech support call and some new settings fixed that problem, but then my airport extreme wouldn't work. Here's the scoop:
- I thought I was supposed to hook the DSL modem to the WAN port (circle of dots), but i kept getting a "no ppoe server has been found for the specified service" error.
- When i hook it up the the LAN port (arrow), though, i can get an internet connection from my iMac (??), but neither of my laptops can connect. My XP can see my home network but can't connect to it. At one point i was able to actually connect to the network (when I plugged in my airport express, and at that time there was a different base stn id in my internet connect app), but could not establish an internet connection (browser failed). My wife's Win ME sees a network and my base station id from the Internet Connect window shows up in the wifi network dialog, which i think means it is talking to the base station, but again, can't get to the internet through my browser or mail app.
One odd piece of the puzzle is that I can't get the base station to appear in the Select Base Station menu in the Airport Admin Utility. I saw it at one point i think when i had it hooked up with the WAN port. Finally, i don't know if this matters but i noticed my base station ID in the Internet Connect app is different than my Airport ID in the Network Airport panel. I was wondering if it got stuck on my Airport Express, but i can't get that to show up in my airport admin utility either. I tried to get the second base stn id to show up in the internet connect app but now it seems to stick on the Extreme ID.
I've tried a soft reset and also powering off everything for five minutes, but that doesn't seem to help. In some screen i saw the IP address (10.64.64.64). I tried clicking "other" and entering the password "public" (i googled somewhere that that was the default, though it's possible i entered a password and forgot it).
Can anyone help...???

I just wanted to clarify that when i said hooked "it" up to the LAN port i meant that I hooked up my DSL modem to the LAN port (which, again, seems wrong to me...) but doing this was able to wirelessly establish an internet connection on my G4 via the Airport.

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