Leopard: Air Disk hanging at "Connecting..."

I can see my AEBS under shared in the Finder window, but it hangs on "Connecting..." and "Connect As" does nothing. Through Airport Utility, I have tried a number of times to set up different ways for it to connect. Nothing. Always the same result.
FWIW, all worked great under Tiger.
It's an Iomega Minimax 750 (and alternately an Iomega 1TB UltraMax), AEBS 1Gbit, and a Mac Book Pro connected via ethernet (WiFi turned off on AEBS).

Hi Chris,
patience is a nice thing. But the situation of many users here is a little complicated.
Many of us have
- bought a large external HD with USB to hook to the AEBS.
- than bought leopard.
Here it is not just about a feature which does not work. For example: If "spaces" would be the problem, nobody would care about that. You don't need to buy extra hardware for that purpose.
Many of us are in a household with some Apple notebooks. We for example have one iBook and two MacBooks. No extra server, no always on separate desktop system which we could use to hook up the HD. I'm just lucky that "drobo" is not available in Germany, so I didn't spent 1000 Euros but only 145 Euros for the external HD.
Second point: The AEBS is always dropping the connection the the HD. And after that I'm not able to reconnect again. I found in another thread that with a downgrade to a prior firmware for the AEBS this problem would be fixed. That must be a joke, or not?
I'm using apple HW and SW because I don't have an IT department here.
Apple: If someone is hearing me: Help!!! I didn't found a possibility to post bugs to apple on this particular problem.
Best
Fernando
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