Losing wireless connection with my airport express with my powerbook G4

Lately I've been losing my wireless signal from my
powerbook G4 to my airport express. The light on my
airport express still shows as green, so I was
wondering if the trouble lied in wither the airport
express or my mac? I'm running on the 6.2 version
that mac had offered as an update for the express.
The signal returns if I shut down my mac, and then
turn it back on, as well as unplugging the airport
express and replugging it in as well. This is
starting to occur now once a day at least.
I am also experiencing the same problem, also only since recently updating my AE firmware. I will provide a bit more information so that maybe someone will be able to offer some suggestions.
I have one AE connected to a BT Broadband modem. My iMac is down the hall, connected to the AE for internet and for Airtunes. What I experience is that I will lose connectivity to the airport itself. In fact, sometimes I can actually watch as my airport signal indicator in my menu bar jumps up and down repeatedly (although sometimes the airport signal just disappears altogether and then when I go looking for it in my Airport menubar, my network is no longer listed). The green light on my AE always stays constant when this happens (even when the airport signal goes away completely). The BT modem seems to be fine.
AE basestation firmware is V6.3.
I am connected to my AE using WPA Personal (anyone know what the Group Key Timeout option does? Mine is set at 60 minutes by default... no idea if that is connected to my issue, but I didn't want to play with it since I don't know what it does).
Channel: Automatic, Closed Network. Access Control is enabled so that only my iMac can access the network. Airtunes is enabled.
Under wireless options, multicast rate is 1, interference robustness is not enabled, and transmitter power is 100%.
Anyone have any ideas about what the problem is and what I can do to try and fix it?
Thanks.
G4 iMac 800 MHz Mac OS X (10.4.4) 1 GB RAM

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