Utility Airport dosn't detect my Airport Express

I plugged it and configured to join my network. It actually has a green light on.
When I start to play music from iTunes after a while (10 min) music stops and I cannot detect my AE anymore in AU. AE name in iTunes became grey and I cannot anymore click on it.
I tried to change WiFi Channel and set a IP static address for AE. Nothing changed.
I don't know what to do to fix it... any ideas?? AE it's brand new!!!

No way. I tried changing encryption to WEP, but connection keep dropping.
After hard reset I could detect it in AU and streaming music to AE for a while. But when I stop Mac (closing it) and reopen, AE disappears and ther' is nothing to do. Always green light on, but no way to detect it.
I treid out almost everything. I' am a little hopeless.
Any idea??

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