WRE54G just creating more problems

I have a WRT54GS router in my home and I often use my Toshiba laptop in a room about 5 walls away. With just the router I get a "very low" signal and it tends to drop out a lot.
To remedy this problem someone suggested I get a range expander. So I did. And after spending over 2 hours setting it up yesterday (there are at least 6 other wireless networks in range so the setup was very complicated - the extender kept logging on to other unsecured Linksys networks) it seemed to be working ok. But the bliss only lasted about one hour.
Here's the problem:
When I turn on the laptop it tries to log on to the weak router signal instead of the extender signal. This is because it takes about 2 minutes before the extender signal is even found. When the extender is found the computer gets confused and starts to log in again - this time through the extender. But for some reason it has a VERY hard time getting a new IP address. Thus it takes almost 5 minutes before the network works again.
Questions:
1. Isn't the extender signal supposed to be there all the time? it seems like the signal only appears after a computer logs in to the network.
2. why is my computer having such a hard time obtaining an IP address from the extender? All the settings are exactly the same on the router and the extender.
3. am I crazy or is this thing just causing more problems?\
mor10
*frustrated*

hi..first off, ensure that both , the wre54g and wrt54gs have the latest firmwares on them...
after upgrading the firmware , reset the router for 30 secs and reconfigure it....
change the ssid , channel 1 or 11, change the beacon interval - 50 , fragmentation threshold and RTS threshold - 2304 ...
if u have a wre54g v1 range expander , reset it for 20 secs and then press the autoconfig button on it..this should configure the range expander..
if u have a wre54g v2 , connect it to the computer.. assign an ip add on the comp
192.168.1.10
255.255.255.0
192.168.1.240
and try accessing http://192.168.1.240 . Keep the username blank and password as "admin".. once u logon to the ui .. make sure that the wireless settings are same as that of the router..
remove the static ip from the computer...do a power cycle....
this should configure the range expander...
and place the range expander somewhere in the midway ...

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