Airplay icon disappears after I click 'Play'

My Airplay icon disappears from my iTunes window whenever I click play.  I usually stream music from iTunes on my Mac Book Air to an Airport Express connected to my stereo.  It's been about a week since I last played music to the stereo, and I can't get it to work.
Symptoms:
- When I click 'play' in iTunes main window, the Airplay icon disappears.
- 'Remote' will not play to the Express.  The icon also disappears from view after clicking play.
- If I switch to the mini-player after launching iTunes, I can play to the Express. Returning to main window and clicking play causes icon to disappear.  Quitting ater selecting Airplay from mini player and relaunching iTunes has no effect; the icon disappears from main view once I click play.
Things I've tried:
- Soft restart on base station and express
- Pulled the plug from base station and express, waited a few minutes, then powered up
- turned 'Enable Airplay' off (update), then on again (second update) on the express
- Restarted my Mac
- Turned on/off home sharing in iTunes
- Cursed and listened to local radio stations
Software/Hardware:
Mac OSX 10.9.2
iTunes 11.1.5 (5) 64bit
Airport Utility 6.3.2
Mid-2011 MacBook Air 11", i7
Airport Extreme (2007/8?)
Airport Express (bought 12/13)

Hi Griff, thanks for the links.
I started my day this morning by shutting down my MBA for a few minutes.  This seems to have fixed the problem.  Because the previous restarts didn't have an effect, I'm wondering if the cause may have been related to a hardware cache (?) of some sort.  I've been using screen shares (Skype, WebEx, GoToMeeting) alot recently, which may have something ot do with this.  I read elsewhere that the disappearing icon is frequently related to a network problem.
In anycase, I can listen to *my* music tongiht.

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