Using AE to play music on stereo

I purchased the AE to be able to play music from iTunes on my stereo in another part of the house.
However, the AE only seems to be found if I have the ethernet cable connected, and is not discoverable when it is off the cable and should be using the wireless connection.
Here is my setup today:
Desktop computer connected via ethernet cable to the router (it does not have a wireless card).
Airport Express in another part of the house (where the wireless is known to work), connected via audio cable to the stereo.
With this setup, the AE is not recognized.
However if I change the set up to put the AE on the ethernet cable, suddently it works perfectly. The problem, I do not have an ethernet connection near the stereo.
Am I doing something wrong?

Try the information in the following article
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1731?viewlocale=en_US
I think that you want your AX to join an existing network, which is the one that is created by your wireless access point (it needs to be broadcasting its name ... at least for the setup.)
If you can't connect that way, then try connecting the AX directly to your access point with ethernet cable. See if you can configure it. If not, then connect it directly to your computer. You will have to enter the information from your access point, including encryption hexidecimal key (not passphrase). If you are using WEP, consider changing to WPA or WPA2. WEP doesn't always "play nice" with Apple products.

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