Trouble playing files from Airdisk (wireless)

My wife and I regularly watch downloaded TV programs via my Powerbook G4. No Frontrow, no remote. My media library is set up as an Airdisk, and we patch the Powerbook to the TV and play files via Mplayer, as its buffer allows stable playback.
I was very excited to get a new MacBook Pro last week, and we were expecting to be able to play files via Frontrow stutter-free with wireless N, and (finally) have the luxury of a remote. No such luck.
Here are the problems I have been encountering:
1) Frontrow drops frames and eventually freezes playback of files located on the Airdisk, usually after about 10 minutes.
2) Frontrow often kills the network connection to the Airdisk when I try to access the files via the Frontrow interface (alias in Movies). Airdisk will be dropped from my "Shared" items in Finder, and remain unaccessible until I power cycle base station.
3) Frontrow freezes, and I am forced to hard power cycle.
Is there any way to buffer playback to frontrow? I expect I am not the only user with this setup, is anyone else able to play video with Frontrow wirelessly via Airdisk?
Thanks!

i restarted itunes and my atv2 (i was watching netflix at the time) went back to the menu as if it was disconnected from the network. however, this couldnt be repeated so maybe it was a spurious thing.
anyway, the music now plays just fine from my ipad and mbp.
its the video that will not work.
i noticed that i had to chnage the file extension of some files to "m4v" to be able to put them on the ipad (others transferred as "mp4) so i didnt know if this mattered. i was under the impression that as long as an audio or video file opened and played in itunes it could be played on any apple device (ipod, ipad, iphone, atv, etc). is this correct? if not, what format to i use when converting video to watch on my ipad or stream to atv2? i want to put my home movies on m tv as background when i am studying or otherwise occupied but just need something in the back ground.

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