My Airport Express is Blinking Amber (PLEASE HELP ME)

My airport express has been blinking amber for 3 days now. I am unable to connect to my wireless internet. For some reason i can still connect to my wireless internet via Xbox Live, and my internet works when i hook it directly into my computer. I am unable to "discover my wireless device", nor connect wirelessly. When i open up the airport utility i try to reconfigure my airport but it wont even let me connect to my own base station settings! i had my wireless internet hooked up previously and it worked great, but all of a sudden nothing is working! can you please give me any ideas you may have on how to fix this problem with the blinking amber light? ive tried reseting it numerous times and that does nothing. I read that if u hold the reset button while plugging the airport into the outlet it will reset. problem is that my airport wont reset!!!!!!please help im in college and i really need this wireless internet to start working again!

I am having almost exactly the same problem. I've tried the "factory reset" and was able to access and reconfigure the AirPort while it was connected directly to my MacBook Pro directly via an Ethernet cable, but once it reset itself it returned to the blinking amber light and stubbornly refuses to start up properly. AirPort Utility can't find the base station at all unless I do a factory reset and connect to the darn thing via Ethernet, and this isn't helping me at all since what I'm trying to do is share my internet connection via the AirPort with my other two Macs (a MacBook, and an iMac) so that both my office and my studio have internet connections, and the music collection on the iMac can be played over the house speakers via AirTunes.
I'm at the end of my rope here. Please help!

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My Apple Airport Express is blinking Amber and I cannot find it with the utility

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I just use it for streaming music from iTunes/iPhone to my amplifier.
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