Unable to set up base station as wireless client

I have a network with one Airport Extreme (UFO-shape) and three Airport Express base stations. Now I had to do a hard reset of all the base stations, and want to use Airport utility to set up the network again.
I have no problems setting up the Airport extreme as the main base station, and the first Airport express as a remote base station (extending the network). I want to set up the other two Airport Express stations as wireless clients (I only use them for iTunes via Airtunes).
My problem is that when I reach the point where I can choose between setting them up to either extend the network or as a wireless client, I am not able to proceed if I choose the latter (nothing happens when I press "continue"). I can only go through the setup process if I choose the Airport Express to be an extension of the network (a remote base station).
For one of the Airport express, I then later manually changed the setup from "be a part of a WDS network" to "connect to a wireless network". But when I try this for the last Airport Express, I am no longer able to contact the base station if I try to do the same. I have chosen channel 11 for the network, and I think in some way or another, after I manually change the settings for the last Airport express, it switches to another channel. After this I can no longer read the base station configuration or connect to it via airtunes.
When I do a hard reset again, and go through the process once more, everything is OK as long as I keep it as a remote base station. But I really would like it to be connected as a wireless client
Any ideas?

The basic wiring setup would include connecting an Ethernet cable from one of the available LAN <-> Ethernet ports to the WAN "O" port on the Time Capsule.
You can run an Ethernet cable up to 100 meters or 300+ feet so the trick will be locate the Time Capsule in the middle of the area where you need more wireless signal coverage.
To have the Time Capsule "extend" the wireless from the gateway, you would need to configure it to create a new wireless network using the same wireless network name, same wireless security setting and same password as the gateway's wireless network.
The final configuration step would be to make sure that the Time Capsule is setup to operate in Bridge Mode, so that it will function as a client for the gateway router.
The specifics of how to do this will depend on the version of AirPort Utility that you are using on your Mac. Post back if you need more details on this.

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