Latest update seems to have killed my airport extreme

Did this happen to anyone else? I updated the firmware for my Airport Extreme on the 10th of July. I messed around with it for a day but it hasn't worked since the firmware upgrade. No matter what I do it can't see the internet. I have tried every possible reset, settings, etc. I can't get an appointment at a Genius bar because of the phone launch and this is becoming really annoying. Right now I'm using Ethernet and its fine, but I have lost all mobility and its the only computer in the house with internet at this point. Any ideas?

Thank you for your response!
I tried the Safe Boot and it didn't work. (Except I did see the purple-spacey background at the log-in screen, which felt like a bit of an improvement)
I'm trying to repair disk permissions, but I'm not sure if it's doing anything or if it's just frozen. Does that usually take awhile?
Right now I'm just trying to get as much of my important stuff onto my harddrive as possible and then re-install the OS.
A bit of a different question, but this is my first Mac and it's been a nightmare, and any other Mac owner says that the problems I've been having with it aren't typical (freezes a lot, won't eject disks, won't wake up sometimes, runs really slowly when I change the resolution, runs pretty slowly if I have a few programs open, and now this), so if anyone else has gotten a dud Mac before, did you find that reformatting it helped, or did you have to take it to the Apple store and get it fixed?

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