What are Apple up to Airport Utility 5.5

My April 1TB TC died and Apple kindly sent me a new one. It came in a brown box without any disk/powercord etc as it is a replacement part. It is a new type of TC (the dual band type). However to install it, it requires Airport Utility 5.5 which Apple does not have on its website. This was released in Oct 2009 and still there is no sign of it on the Apple site. Why would they do something like this?

I feel your pain. I've had the same issue. This is apparently an issue with Time Capsule replacements of new generation models for old gens. (you're right - no power cable, no box, no install software, just sent in a padded shipping container). They replaced my first generation (single band) with a new dual-band Time Capsule. I called them over two weeks ago. They don't offer AU 5.5 online, I can't pick it up from an Apple store. The best they said they could do is snail-mail a copy to me - they can't even expedite the shipping. They can FedEx the hardware to me and the new box got to me in 2 days but I'm dumbfounded that they can't do the same if they forgot to include the software. I still don't have it - called tonight and they said it could be another week. Mega-lame.
They explained that the reason they don't offer the download online is that 5.5 isn't compatible with older TC's and are worried that posting it would cause chaos. Shouldn't Airport Utility be universal across the spectrum of their wireless networking devices?

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