Came across this mode in a Macworld review by Dan Drakes. I set up my AE by adding a tick in the allow ethernet clients box, and after that I have had no trouble manually accessing the configuration. Also the E61 still works ;)
Yesterday I had all sorts of trouble accessing the config, though I discovered a surefire way this morning by plugging the beast out/in and rescanning for devices until it appeared, then I could 'get in' to it..
So I have Airtunes working from iTunes to my stereo...