Network Name Problem

I have an Airport Express hooked up to wirelessly extend the network of my Airport Extreme and also to act as a wireless bridge for my Mac Pro.  My problem is that when I go in to add a device (blu-ray player, wii, etc.) two networks of the same name appear?  So my question is, how do you merge the names of the two networks?  What exactly is going on?  Thanks for any insight you may have!

Both the AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express broadcast the same wireless network name in an extended network. This is correct and normal.
If they didn't, and you walked your laptop from one area to another in your home, you would then have to manually log off of one network and then log back on to the other network. That would not be an extended network.
Choose the top selection on the Blu-Ray player since the network that is listed first has the strongest signal....which is what you want.

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