Problem communicating with Airport express

I have had a smal home network for some time. Set up is AEBS, AXBS as client to use airtunes to the stereo, an iMac that connects via wire to the AEBS, and a wireless Macbook. No security enabled. Today I was streaming some music, and burning some cd's with the macbook, when I noticed a very strange thing in the istat pro widget. In the network section it read in: 1 mb , out 104 mb. The computer had acted strange, as in very slow, so I freaked out and suspected someone was connected to my network and sucking info (or something) out of it. So I went ahead and enabled WEP security. Everything worked fine with the Macbook and the AEBS, even with the iMac, but I can't get pass a "there is a problem communicating with the base station" when I tried to change the settings in the AXBS. I tried to do it wireless and through internet to no avail...
I hope some onecan point me in the right direction
thanks in advance

2 Possibilities:
1) AirPort Utility on your computer has become corrupted. Delete the current application located Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility, restart your computer and then reinstall the application.
http://support.apple.com/downloads/#airport
2) The AirPort Express device is not fully resetting to factory defaults due to an internal component problem. If you've tried the factory default reset a number of times and still can't configure the device, it will need to be replaced.

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