Can I send Apple TV 2 audio to Airport Express

I can't seem to find an answer for this respect to the ATV2.  Everything I read talks about using Airplay to stream from iTunes on a computer to either the Apple TV or to an Airport Express.  However, what I'd like to do is have the audio from my Apple TV (whether it's Netflix, Internet Radio, rented movies, etc.) sent from the Apple TV to my home stereo.  I have no way to get a wire all the way from the TV to the stereo so I was hoping to get an Airport Express and plug it into my stereo and then hopefully the audio from the Apple TV could play through it.  I just can't confirm that it will work.  The chat guy at the Apple Store said yes but I have no confidence in that answer because he couldn't give any details on how it would be set up.
Does anyone have an answer?  If it won't work with the Airport Express, does anyone have a solution that I could implement to get the job done?  I'd like the have better audio when watching movies or playing slideshows with music.
Thanks.

Sorry, but unlike an iTunes host, the Apple TV is not a Media Server and, as far as I know, you would not be able to stream from it ... at least not yet. Interestingly, with the Apple TV 2 using iOS as its operating system (the older version used a slimmed-down version of OS X), there may be an app developer out there that will come up with the means to do so in the not too distant future.

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