[X4U] airport - making the connection

[FC Farwell]

Ok its been awhile since i ve configured an airport, anyway.

my powerbook has a good signal form the airport base.
encryption is off for now on the base station, to get me going quickly 
for now.
Airport is the selected connection in the network preferences.

But when I open Safari and try to connect all it replies is that the 
server can't be located. I've read apple airport help but this has not 
solved the problem. Any ideas what im missing?

the powerbook has 10.3.3 on it. 1GB memory and is the latest model.

FC Farwell