XBOX 360:Sharing a wireless connection?

I bought an xbox 360 today. My dorm room connection only allows one MAC address to connect at a time, and even though I tried changing the 360 MAC address to match my powerbook’s, I had no luck plugging in at the data point. So I got myself a wireless adapter, hoping I could share the Ethernet connection over the PB's built in airport. It works fine with my PSP so I figured it wouldn’t be a problem with the xbox.
It recognises the wireless network and doesn’t have a trouple connecting, but it won’t assign an ip address. I really want to get this working. Does anyone have any advice?

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