Messed up my airport express music..need help

Hi Everyone
I'm one of these guys who just can't stop messing around with things and now I've messed up my airport express and can't send music to my stereo.
I have two airport expresses (N's) and had them setup and playing very well to both stereos..Then one day I decided to try and hook up a wireless internet connection through my express to my IMAC which went very well..The problem was that I had no stereo connections close by and lost the ability to play music to my stereo..So I decided to reconnect my IMAC directly to a CAT5 wire and place my express back on the stereo..
When I did this I noticed that all I was getting is a flashing orange light and no music..I also noticed that the other airport express was also flashing orange with no music and it not been removed at all from its original location..So I've opened network preferences and tried to create new network..still flashing orange..then deleted all wireless networks and its still flashing orange..The other weird thing is I go to airport utility and ask it to find my expresses and it comes back with nothing found "rescan"..I'm in a heap of a mess and could use any help that folks can offer
Cheers
Al

I have same problem when i rescan nothing found and cannot click on manual set up. I tried to reinstall airport utility and when it comes to selecting a drive to install on i get an error message as follows:
Airport cant be installed on this disk. The version of Max OS X on this volume is not supported.

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