New Retina MBP Doesn't See Time Capsule

Just purchased a new retina MBP and have 2 probems with it.
1. It doesn't see my Time Capsule, when using Airport Utility it states that 'no configured airport base stations have been found'. I also have an iMac which sees the TC ok.
2. I did a superduper backup of my old MBP but set up the new MBP as a new machine just importing the applications from the backup using Migration assistant. Because of the problem in item 1 above I tried to start up using the external backup but failed. The new MBP cannot startup on the backup disk (Freeagent GoFlex 1TB) even though it's shown as an optional startup in the settings. When trying to startup from it the machine just goes to a black screen and does nothing.
So far, not too impressed.
Regards

1. Yesterday my mbp-r was unable to find my AP extreme base station in Airport Utility, even though the network seemed to be functioning perfectly. Rebooted the mbp-r (not painful given the speed), and now all is well with Airport Utility. Mysterious, but it worked.
2. Does superduper clone the recovery partition? (I think I read somewhere it doesn't.) And if not, can you boot from such a clone? IIRC, Carbon Copy Cloner can produce a recovery partition.

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