My Airport extreme prevents daughters Dell PC to join Mac network

My Daughter has just gone over to the Dark side and bought a Dell Desktop PC, we ordered a wireless adaptor with it and have not been able to get it to work. Symptoms:
1. It has found the network and communicated with it fine, good signal strength etc,
2. However the connection fails as the Airport wont give the Dell a new IP address.
3. I have ensured the "Distribute IP address" is checked in the Utility control panel under the Airport.
4. The Dell is using Windows XP operating system.
Help!!!!!!

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I am sure that I am not alone here.
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