Mac not reading Airport express.

Hello..
I just bought the airport express and I connected the ethernet cable from my cable modem to the port. At this point the Airport light was green and the lights on my modem were flashing as if it was working.
Thinking this was a great start I went to the Aiport Setup Assistant and chose to set up a new airport base station. An error comes up telling me "no new airport networks were found". I can't get the internet to work, and I've tried with my mac and my girlfriends pc.
Two things:
1. What can the issue be?
2. Why are the modem lights flashing as if there is a connection to something.
Any help would be great. Thanks.

Make sure that you have Airport turned on in the
Airport menu in the menu bar. If it is turned on,
make sure that the Express is in an unconfigured
state. To do so, press and hold the reset button
until the LED flashes rapidly. Then try running the
Airport Setup Assistant again.
Yes it says that its on, but yet I am getting no bars on my mac.
Do I need to configure anything on my mac so the Airport signal is read. It seems like my system just isnt reading the port. AHH..Sorry..not super computer savvy, yet really want to get this working. Thanks so much.

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