New core duo 2.0ghz but 802.11n enabler won't work!!

Just bought a brand spankin' new MacMini for the living room to use as a Media Center. Have got an Airport Extreme so wanted to upgrade the new mini to 802.11n wireless like my MacBook is.....but it doesn't seem to stick! The install of the Enabler 'seems' like it works but when you check the settings for wireless it just shows a/b/g but no 'n'! Shouldn't this now work with the new mini!??

I'm upset about this as well, I just got my mini the other day with expectations that I could enable the "n" portion of the airport "extreme" card inside it as well so I could finally make use of the full 5GHz band with my new Airport Extreme router that I got a few weeks ago when my son got his iMac.
Surely it has to be that it's not installing because it's reporting that this is a "mini" and not the MacBook's or iMac or larger, and not because it had anything to do with the C2D processors which only had a Airport "Express" card in them, which is the difference between them. When I seen that it said Airport Extreme on the box, even though it only said "(802.11 a, b, g)" I, like many are expecting it just needed to be updated with the patch to activate the "n" on it, like the previous generation MacBooks, iMac, etc. The newer generation Mac's all have it already activated and the software patch installed is why they say it on the box.
Or at least, that was my thinking behind it. Did they rip us all off and only put an Airport "Express" card inside the new "Mini's" and falsely advertise it has an "Extreme" card in it? I haven't payed any attention, as of yet, to know if anyone has dissected one or not and posted pics of it.
Where is the patch fix to update the new "Mini" to make use of the "n" portion of it? They have been feverishly releasing all sorts of other updates for everything else they released of late, why not the updated driver patch for the "Mini"? Surely all it would need is a check to see which "Mini" it's being installed on to make it activate it, to make sure it's not trying to install on a previous "Mini" but still allow it on the newest ones, especially once you've spent the $179 for the new router that has the patch inside it and it already recognizes 802.11a, it's not like it's a b/g only card.

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