New MacBook doesn't seem to like my Airport Express

Hi,
I just replaced my old PowerBook G4 (Aluminum) with a MacBook and it doesn't seem to play nicely with my Airport Express when it comes to AirTunes. I live in an apartment building and with my old machine I could see 4 or 5 networks but the new machine sees about 18 different networks (newer hardware, better antennas I guess) and AirTunes keeps dropping out. I also get rather random drops of the signal where my AirPort status in the OS goes to zero and I have to reconnect. It's frustrating!
I've tried adjusting the channel multiple times and I've used iStumbler to try and figure out what channel other networks are using and although I've found an unoccupied one (2 right now, other people seem to love 1, 6, and 12), AirTunes still drops out frequently (maybe 3-5 times every five minutes, usually in clusters). Interference Robustness is enabled.
Does anyone have ideas on how to improve the situation? I hate to throw hardware at the problem, but I'm even thinking about getting an Airport Extreme because maybe 802.11n will help the cause? (But will my AirTunes with Airport Extreme problem still exist?)
Any help is appreciated!
Airport Express Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Some times doing the support over the phone can be a little difficult. So just maybe visualizing the steps may help. Give it a try and see if it helps and its free, I have read your other post. here are the links:
http://www.home-network-help.com/wireless-router.html = Router
below are the links for the wireless adapter
http://www.home-network-help.com/wireless-adapter-configuration-in-vista.html = vista
http://www.home-network-help.com/wireless-adapter.html = windows XP
Good luck,
tteh

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