Air tunes dropout on Airport Express

I am still getting a drop out on music using Airport with Air Tunes over the Airport express wireless hookup. I have installed the latest firmware ( v6.3) which is supposed to correct this problem but it is still very annoying. It works fine using my G4 laptop but not the G5 iMac. I just had the airport card installed on the G5. Could it be a bad card? Any other ideas. All software is current.

Thanks for the tip. I read in other discussions that I should update to 6.3 (I already had that version) and select "Multiple Speakers" in iTunes (this didn't work).
So taking your advice, I switched my Airport Extreme base station off Auto to Channel 10 (still had the random dropouts of signal) so I went to Channel 1. This seems to have worked.
Thanks again.
Mike

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