Impossible to Wifi link G5 with Airport Extreme to Sagem Livebox

I am not sure quite where to this. Thanks for any help.
Kevin
I live in France and have just aqquired a Livebox from Orange. I have installed An Airport Extreme in my 2004 dual processor G5 with the aim of having a wire free connection.
I already have an up and running ADSL line. I unplugged the MAC ADSL (high speed) Ethernet modem and took it off the the telephone plugs from the wall sockets (to avoid any interference). I then configured the livebox using a laptop PC with a USB Orange WiFi connection. This worked perfectly.
With this running, I tried to link in the Mac as a second computer using the specified methodology. However, when I put in the WPA/WEP code, the MAC said that this code format is not accepted. I tried various things over about 2 hours but with no success. I even moved the Livebox-38d1 closer next to the MAC.
The MAC detected it on the "finder" Airport list (at the top Right hand side of the main screen).
As far as security codes are concerned I am not sure what the difference is between WPA and WEP, if any. Actually, the automatic security code requested was WEP and NOT WPA Personal as in the documents from Orange.
I have read the UK Orange site help notes (although some of the links are not working... ).
Advice and help please.
Note that all I am trying to do at this point in time is to use Wifi to connect the MAC up as a second computer on the Livebox.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
Kevin GARDINER in Lille

On the French forum: http://forums.macgeneration.com I found the solution (after reading about thirty contributions). The Sagem Livebox key to be used is WEP hexadecimal and NOT WPA Personal as written in he Orange documenation.
I hope this may help somebody.
Until the next time. Kevin

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