Time Capsule adress conflict with Airport Express

Hello, hope someone can help me out. I have a small network at home, using the Airport Express as wireless base station connected to my DSL modem. Both iMac and iBook can connect and I can play my iTunes over the network to my stereo.
Bought a Time Capsule and tried to get it to work. In the setup menu I have chosen it to operate in my network. The timecapsule will reboot but then I get a message that it has in incorrect network adress and from that moment on the TC stays invisible. Now I can see in the setup program that the TC is trying to use 10.0.0.1 as network adress. I haven't got a clue how to change that adress and into what it should be changed.
As for now I have connected my TC to my iMac using a 10 m ethernet cable, but that is a bit boring. I would like to have it operating wireless. Next to this I would like to keep using my AX to play my music to the stereo and use the USB printer connected to the TC or the AX
Who can help me out?

You should use the Manual Setup option from the AirPort Utility so that you will be afforded the maximum configuration options.
See this link for instructions:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/DesigningAirPort_Networks10.5-Windows.pdf

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