Powerbook and Airport Express conflict

Hi there
I am trying to set up a Powerbook and an Airport Express on a Vigor wireless router. It seems that there are conflicts between the Powerbook and the AE that I can't put my finger on. I can set both of them up fine so that they both work, but then when I restart my Powerbook it is reading the IP from the Airport Express. From this point on I am getting a bit lost with regard to how to stop this happening. I know it has something to do with turning of the Distribute IP address function on the AE. I also run a PC (ethernet) and a Mac desktop (ethernet) which I need to access on my home network from the Powerbook.
Can someone please point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance
Alasdair

I have already done that. That is the point at which
my Powerbook decides to lose internet connectivity.
DOes the PowerBook re-connect to the Vigor network?
If so does it have a valid IP address.
Is your Vigor router configured to use NAT and distribute IP addresses? It needs to be so that your PowerBook and Airport Express can be assigned an IP address by the router to share the single IP address assigned by your ISP.
iFelix

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