WRE54G losing connection to either router or PCI?

I have a WRT54GS V6 router, a WMP54GS pci card and now a WRE54G V3 Expander all with latest firmare. Router is downstairs and coverage is fine for most of upstairs but my bedroom is about 20 feet down a hallway and signal is low (and sometimes non-existent) in this bedroom.
Have set the expander up properly following the many links  on this support forum and when I first plug it in, everything is fine.  Blue lights on, my bedroom PC says "excellent" signal with 54mbps speed and internet works great.  After about 10 minutes though I can't access any websites or connect to expander through browser. All of this time, the lights are still blue and my PC still has 5 bars and excellent signal strength.  If I try repairing connection, it will connect again with a low signal and not allow me to access expander settings so I'm assuming it's bypassing expander and connecting to router rather than expander.  The only way to connect again to expander is to power it down and on again and I'm then back to a great signal for 10 minutes.
Things I've tried after searching the forum:
- tried different channels
- assigned new IP address to expander
- enabled mac filtering on router to stop PC from bypassing expander and
reconnecting to router.  In this case, same problem but then can't repair/connect to router and must restart expander to connect to it.
- tried setting a different SSID on expander and setting PC to connect to only that one.
- turned off power saving mode in settings of my PCI card (via device manager)
- moving expander to different places.  If I place it at top of stairs, the signal in my bedroom is not great.  If I place it in my bedroom next to computer, signal is great.  Either way though, the same  problem happens after 10 minutes or so.
Aside from resetting the expander and following all of the the setup instructions again (which I've done about 5 times now), is there anything else I can do?
Thanks.

Hi,
Thanks for reply.  No, I'm not losing connection to internet when I'm not using the repeater.  It's only when I add the repeater to the mix do I lose the internet connection along with connection to the repeater.
Called Linksys today and they first advised me to re-flash the firmware even though it had the latest version. No change.  They then told me to try to wall power plate rather than the AC wire connection.  Not sure what that has to do with it but will try it. 
I bought this unit a few weeks ago via Amazon for $35 as a refurbished unit.  I'm starting to think I just got a lemon.  Unfortunately, the actual seller was Amazon but some other reseller that doesn't accept returns on refurbished units.  
I will try WEP but to be honest, I really don't want the unit if it doesn't support WPA as it's supposed to.  And yes, I have assigned a static IP and gateway.  I also tried changing the computers gateway to the IP address of the repeater (read that suggestion somewhere) but again, no luck.  

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