New airport extreme not recognized by airport utility

I've got a 2011 MBP. Right now I have an older Airport extreme up & working with my Time Warner cable modem. When I tried to connect my new 802.11n airport extreme, I couldn't get it to stop blinking amber. First the airport utility told me that I didn't have a valid IP. The second time, after unplugging everything (cable modem & plugging it back in & resetting the airport, the utility couldn't find the router at all.
The manual says contact your cable company, but I got someone who's only solution was to go to system preferences/network & see if "airport" was checked. The second time after specifically asking for someone who understood macs,I got a bit more useful info, but it still doesn't work. I've unplugged everything countless times, reset the airport extreme, renewed the DCHP twice, restarted the computer & swapped out the ethernet cable. Still no luck. Any ideas?

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