My AirPort Express now drops out almost every night.

The green light remains on as though all is fine, but it completely loses wi-fi signal.
It goes from a full bar perfect wi-fi signal (which it's had for over a year) to zero bars of wi-fi instantly - and then it remains off.
This has been confirmed wtih multiple computers.
About 20% of the time it will come back on by itself after about 10 minutes.
The other 80% of the time, I have to crawl over my television and audio system, unplug the AE and allow it to restart.
This is starting to become maddening. It appears the device itself is defective.
I have installed the latest updates.
G5 Tower Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi StephenBhm,
there could be a interference problem:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58543
You have upgraded the Airport Express Firmware?
http://www.apple.com/support/airport/

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