Lost airport base station after upgrade

I started the airport utility which noted that there was new software for my base station available, which I downloaded and installed. After that I lost my base station... I have a Thomson router which got immediately corrupted as well. Now I have to choose between the Thomson or the Airport. I can't have them at the same time.
Anyone a suggestion ??
thanks in avance
Airport purchased 3 weeks ago...

I left the base station unplugged for the whole night.. as soon as I plug it in I loose my complete network and I can't access the base station to change the settings. I have to unplug it again and restart my ADSL modem to get my network up again.
This is very frustrating, espacially because averything worked fine before my upgrade..

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