AirPort Extreme + Graphite WDS problems

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I've had an AirPort Extreme Base Station for a while now. I just happened upon an AirPort (Graphite) Base Station, and I am trying to set the graphite base station to act as a remote base station under WDS (the extreme base station as the main base station).

I was following Apple's support pages, and got my extreme base station properly setup as the "main base station," however, when attempting to configure the graphite base station as a remote base station, the WDS tab is not even available under configure within the AirPort Admin Utility.

Is the graphite base station not even capable of WDS (which is my hunch), or is something not setup properly on the graphite for that tab not to show up?
 
you can't set the graphite for WDS as it isn't supported on anything other than Extreme or Express base stations
 
Yea, under the AirPort admin utility, it says its running firmware version 3.84, which from what I understand is the latest for the graphite model.

I've completed a hard reset/reload on the base station as well. What is suspect, is after doing this, the admin utility just shows the ethernet ID, but not the AirPort ID.

Also, the last step on the reset, is to configure with the AirPort setup assistant. When I run this, it detects the new network, but says its unable to connect to base station.

Here's the support article I found on reseting the graphite base station:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58613

I can go through steps 1-8, and all seems to check out. But when I reach step 9, the problem where it detects the new network, but is unable to connect to the base station occurs.

(So it seems if I can figure out this problem, of why the AirPort ID is no longer being shown, and why the setup assistant cannot detect the base station, but understands that there is a new network there, then the WDS tab should be available)
 
OK, so much for setting up WDS.

But, now after the hard reset of the graphite station. When I plug my cable modem directly into the graphite one, I still can't set it up as a regular base station, there's still no AirPort ID showing up in the admin utility, and it won't let me connect to the internet.

So now my problem is just getting it to work again. See my above post for what steps I took to reset, and what I can't do now that it is.
 
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