To Airport 6.0/7.6.1 firmware or not to

My airport is hooked up to the following:
1. A 10.6.8 Mac Mini acting as my Magicjack terminal.
2. A 10.6.8 notebook I dare not upgrade to 10.7 as my wife has a hard enough time just adjusting to 10.6. Patched for Flashback
3. A 10.7.3 notebook and a 10.7.3 iMac both patched for Flashback
4. An AppleTV 2
5. And via LAN two Sony XBR9 TV sets.
6. A first generation iPad.
No iDisks, nor plan for iDisk.
Would there be any difficulty with Airport Utility 6.0 or Airport firmware 7.6.1? If there would be, how to force my airport not to look for firmware updates? Out of the blue yesterday my airport quit working, and I had to unplug it, and plug it back in to get it to work again. It wasn't distributing any internet packets even though the green light was on before I did the unplug/replug. Don't know if the fact that some machines still have Airport 5.5.3 installed and the base station has firmware 7.6 has anything to do with it or not. I have yet to check with Magicjack if the their system uses Java or not, but that's my next issue if it does.

Would there be any difficulty with Airport Utility 6.0 or Airport firmware 7.6.1?
Millions of users have updated with no problems at all. But, any software or firmware update always creates some unforeseen issues for a small tiny fraction of users.
As you know, we only see the problems here on the forums, so if you read a few threads, its easy to come to the conclusion that the latest firmware or software breaks everyones machines.
Chances are, if you read the posts after Lion was introduced, and based your decision to update on what you saw, you would have never updated. Same for Snow Leopard, Leopard, etc, or any previous version of firmware for the AirPorts.
No one can predict what your results may be in advance.
If there would be, how to force my airport not to look for firmware updates?
Open AirPort Utility 5.5.3.
If you are running Lion, you will need to download and install AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion
Select the AirPort and click Manual Setup
Click the Base Station tab below the row of icons
Click the Options button
Then remove the check mark next to Check for Firmware Updates
Click Done, then click Update at the lower right of the window to save your new settings and allow the AirPort to restart.
Out of the blue yesterday my airport quit working, and I had to unplug it, and plug it back in to get it to work again.
Post back when you have more info on this.

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>New Creative ZEN Firmware .2.03" firmware does not work This new "Creative ZEN Firmware .2.03, Filesize : 7.6 MB" firmware does not work.
All I get is : "Please make sure there is only one player connected" (See image below)
I have a CreativeZen 4GB player with Vista 64-Bit Operating system (Main System).
Yes, I have followed the instructions step-by-step, downloaded the new firmware first, then, connected my ZEN player, double-clicked the "ZEN_PCFW_L22__2_03" downloaded file.
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I left it sit for one hour and did not move, same result (See image below).
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Re: New Creative ZEN Firmware .2.03" firmware does not work$ I updated my Zen 32GB using Vista x64 so it can work under some situations. Can't say my upgrade went problem-free but it did work in the end.
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Re-download the firmware updater. Maybe you got a bad download.
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