ATV not showing up in iTunes

My ATV is not showing up in iTunes. ATV is working correctly on the television. search for ATV is set in pref of itunes. ATV shows up in choice possibility of itunes speaker choice (right bottom). Reinstalled itunes still no joy.
Any suggestions to get ATV displayed again in itunes
Iemke

When I first hooked up my ATV, it came up under devices in iTunes, and I started syncing my videos on to it. For whatever reason it was taking ridiculously long to sync, so I figured I'd cancel and just sync a couple just to test it out. The second I changed my syncing preferences and went to click apply, the ATV disappeared from iTunes, never to be seen again. I've restored the ATV to it's factory settings, done software updates, rebooted my Mac numerous times, and still have nothing. Looks like we are all in a similar boat and any sort of help would be greatly appreciated.

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