New PC, airport won't work

First of all apologies as I am not very computer savvy (so my problem could indeed be easily fixed..), nor am i a Mac user.
In 2009 I had a nice system of itunes linked to 2 airport expresses in 2 different rooms of my house. At the time of set up i remember it being a rather complex task. At the start of 2010 i upgraded my PC and now i find I can no longer get my airport expresses to work. I have read all sorts of posts and tried various things to no avail.
Basically, i ONLY use my airport expresses to pick up itunes so i can play music in 2 rooms, thats all. The last thing i tried was to move one of my aiport expresses into the same room as the pc and give it a hard reset with a paper clip. It is flashing an amber light at me. When i go to Airport Utility, it eventually finds it, but when i click on continue it goes through the process of detecting an Apple device and then gives me the message "an error occurred while trying to access the Apple device. Make sure your network connection is valid and try again" Error -4
Is there something i should have done when i upgraded my PC? Any help at all woudl be much appreciated, i have been without my favourite music for too long.

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