Trying to install Airport Express kills wifi connection for all devices!

I changed the wi-fi security from WEP to WPA2 on my parents Westell 327w (802.11g) and I updated their iMac, iPod touch and their iPad. All good. Then I get a call from them that the light on the Airport Express (AE) is staying yellow. Crap, I forgot to change that. So next time I'm there I unhook the Ethernet cable from the iMac and plug it into the AE and use the Airport Utility to change the security setting (first I reset it). It gets to the point where it is updating and it seems to be taking forever and I happen to look at the iMac Airport menu bar icon and it shows what I interpret as a dropped connection (no bars) (the iMac was on wifi since I was using the Ethernet cable for the AE). Airport Utility reports an error of some sort and wants me to restart it. Every device -- iPad, iPod touch, iMac -- does not connect because they no longer recognize the WPA2 password. I put the Ethernet cable back into the iMac so I could use the web interface for the Westell and after an hour of deleting settings, hitting forget connection, and disabling and re-abling WPA2 security somehow I got wifi going again. Then I decided to try the old AE again. Same thing happened all over again. UUUUGGGGHHH!!!!! Please, for the love of God, can someone tell me what is happening? Sometimes the Westell drops connections (like to the iPad) but usually turning it off and on restores it. Maybe it just dropped by coincidence as I was updating the AE but I've never seen all devices not recognizing the WPA2 password. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Thanks.

Open Airport Utility (open Spotlight and type Airport Utility) and follow the on-screen instructions. If you still have trouble give AppleCare a call this can walk you through the process.

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Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, my home wifi dies for all devices when I bring my MacBook Pro home.

The situation:
Ever since upgrading to Mountain Lion, the following sequence of events has happened with my laptop.
1. I come home from work.
2. I open the lid of my laptop.
3. I see the white "your comptuer's messed up" screen. I click a button to restart.
4. We lose wifi. This affects all devices.
5. I restart the router and modem.
Once it's restarted, I have no issues - until I leave for work and bring the computer back that night. I've checked the router and modem - no issues there, as it works perfectly for every other device in the house, and even works for the laptop perfectly (once they've been reset, that is).
Some notes of clarification:
1. The wifi does not die with any other device - this includes an iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and an iPad 1.
2. BUT, when the wifi DOES die, it affects every device in the house.
3. My laptop does not do this with any other wifi - only my home wifi.
It seems to me that the correlation is in the initial connection. When my laptop initially tries to connect to our home wifi, it's as if it fries both the connection and the computer. I see a lot of issues with people losing wifi for their computer, or slow wifi, but I haven't seen anything that relates to this wifi death across all devices when the laptop is reawoken after being at work. It's like there's something messed up with the switch from work wifi to home wifi.
Please help!
Details:
2011 MacBook Pro 15-inch
OSX 10.8.1 (12B19)

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Apple Airport Express - drops wifi connections after a day or two.....??

Dear Users,
Can anyone assist me, I have 2 Apple Airport Express recievers and an Apple TV2 connected to my iMac. The Apple TV is connected via ethernet and a gigabit switch via the BT Infinity Router. The 2 Apple Airport Expresses are connected via wiresles to the BT router.
Everything works fine, music streams perfectly most of the time.
But after 24-48 hours of being dorment the Router seems to drop the wireless connections to the Apple Airport Expresses, if you reboot the router they connect again immediatley. I have adjusted the router settings to 802.1n, instead of 802.1n/b/g, which seemed to work better for a few days and the connection never dropped and now the problem has started again.
Frankly its not the end of the world, but it means I have to reboot the router everytime we want to use all zones for music, which when you have a wife that moans that 'my setup is too complicted and has to be rebooted everytime', it would be great to resolve this for once and all.....
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Hello all. I have a question regarding Airport Express's audio transmitting capabilities. First, I recently purchased an Airport Express to expand the wifi range in my new house. The house is one floor, and my Linksys N router is located on the other side of the house from my bedroom. The signal from the Linksys is spotty at best in the bedroom, so I have the Airport Express connected via CAT5 in bridge mode in my bedroom. The signal is great and everything has worked fine so far with that setup.
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Duane,
Thank you for your speedy response!!!!
When I open the AirPort Utility.app, a window opens called AirPort Utility, the twirly/stopwatch icon goes into motion next to the words"Discovering Base Stations." After this happens for some seconds, these words appear...
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First of all, I looked everywhere on the internet about this issue I’m having and couldn’t find any solution. To explain my issue let me tell you how and why I use AirPort Express shortly;
My Purpose
I have a wireless network and all my PCs are connected in one network. I have a Windows server and using it for general purposes and also as a file server. But if someone joins my network, they all are able to see my shared folders. They are able to read/write files (even delete them).
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I just disabled DHCP Server from my router and now it seems to be better. But I don't know if it's something that I shouldn't do or not. Have any ideas?
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http://www.macworld.com/article/132754/2008/03/express11n.html
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