Limit Mac Mini to 5 Ghz Wireless

I have an Airport Extreme Dual Band with the Access Point set to one name on both bands.
There are a number of 802.11n devices connected happily and a 2008 spec mac mini which has an a/b/g card and iphones which have to connect to the b/g network.
I'd like to limit the mac mini to the 5 Ghz 'a' network but I cannot work out how to stop the mac mini from connecting to the g network instead.
Does anyone know how to switch limit the bands of the mac mini?
Thanks

I did consider that but I am wary of going down that route as there are enough "users" on the network for that to start becoming a real pain.
I was really hopeful that someone knew of a hidden setting that could force the mini only to connect to an 'a' network instead of defaulting to the 'g'.
I think the alternative might be to utilise the SSID (5Ghz) naming option under the airport extreme (as I am unlikely to be allowed to buy a new mini at this point in time)...

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