Need Aiport Express Set-Up Help

My goal: use Airport Express to stream music from iTunes to my home stereo.
My problem: after 5 hours, several beers, and lots of swear words, I cannot get the amber light to stop blinking.
My set-up is:
OS: XP Home, SP2 (I believe)
ISP: Qwest DSL
Wireless router: Qwest-branded Actiontec (usure of exact model)
Network Card: Linksys
Encryption: WEP
What I've done/what happens: I plug the AE into the wall and run the AE setup assistant. I tell it I want the AE to join an existing network (my network is called "Actiontec").
It seems like I go through all the steps correctly -- entering the WEP key I use to connect to my network, entering a password, etc. -- until the very end, when the setup assistant tries to reconnect to my Actiontec network. It can't.
I get a message that the AE was set up correctly, but because the setup assistant couldn't connect to my Actiontec network, it can't verify that the AE is working properly. At this time, as at all times, the amber light is still blinking.
I've gone through this twice now, and each time it somehow ruins my computer's connection to my network. I can't reconnect using the Wireless Zero Configuration, and have to re-install the Linksys network monitor software to reconnect to the internet. I then have to uninstall that software and re-enable Wireless Zero Configuration to reconnect to the Actiontec network.
When I do that, I can't find the Airport Express that I supposedly just configured. When I reset the AE, the setup assistant will find it again, but only when I do a re-scan.
I understand there may some special thing I need to do with WEP key, but I have no clue what that is.
I really want for this to work, as Airtunes seems to be the ideal solution for my music streaming needs (multiple rooms, plays all my DRMed AAC files, cheap) but I'm about at my wit's end. Save me.
Windows XP

Figured it out. Sort of. Replying to my own post in the hopes it might benefit somebody else out there. I can make everything work fine if I turn off all security on my wireless network. If I swith to WPA-PSK security, I can set everything up and it appears to work fine, but when I stream music to my airport, it works for about 10 seconds and then I lose my connection to my network.
Also, I when I stream music to both the airport and my computer, itunes skips/pauses for about 1 second, three or four times per song. It works completely fine when I stream to just the airport. Not a CPU/resources issue, as I'm using only 5-10% of cpu. Also not a wi-fi/bandwith issue, because I'm using the same wi-fi bandwith when I stream just to the airport, and it works fine. Seems to be a software issue, or something? Anybody have any ideas for me?

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