Why cannot my Laptop view my Airport Express?

My iMac has a perfect connection to the internet via the Airport Express but my Laptop running XP Professional 5.1 SP2 can't. The laptop views other networks and can connect to these but not to my own Airport Express.
I have restarted the Airport Express both by the administration tool and by unplugging the power.
Does anyone have a suggestion on where to start looking?
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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