AirPlay no longer working reliably on Snow Leopard

I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.8 with latest patches installed, including iTunes 10.6.3. Mac Mini with 8GB RAM. All components connected to home network via wired Ethernet (no wifi involved). Components use fixed IP addresses.
I've been using AirPlay with my AVR very reliably for couple months to play music using Home Sharing. I have also ATV as well as AE, which I've used for whole home audio setup. It's awesome and I've been very happy with this setup.
I've had the system unplugged from about middle of April 2012, and replugged in the middle of July. No changed components, and with no hardware changes in the home network. Since then however, AirPlay no longer works reliably.
The symtoms are as follows:
1. I start iTunes, get the AirPlay icon, select the AVR destination, playback works fine
2. On the AVR, I switch to another audio input (like ATV, or PS3), which obviously makes iTunes to stop playing the music
3. From this moment on, iTunes is no longer able to play music to _any_ of the AirPlay destinations, i.e. not to AVR, not to ATV and neither to AE - if I hit Play button in iTunes, no error is displayed, just the song position in iTunes doesn't advance, and no sounds comes out of the remote speakers; if I switch to local (computer) speakers, it works
If I Quit iTunes and start it again, it again works, until AVR source switch. For sure, this makes for mighty hassle to the extend it's barely usable at all.
The problem can be triggered any time, happens always - there is no difference, if the triggering sequence is run after several minutes or after several hours of playback.
I've tried several obvious steps to fix this, but none has made any difference:
1. before switching audio source on AVR, stopped iTunes playback, either directly in iTunes or via Remote app
2. networksetup -setv6off hint from forums, for WiFi and Ethernet
3. tried downgrade of iTunes to 10.6.1 via Time Machine
4. switched off firewall on Mac Mini
5. connected Mac Mini with the AVR directly via known working cable (ruling out switches and any cable faults in between), also tried to connect them to the same network switch
I've also tried to run tcpdump on the ethernet interface when the iTunes is in the non-working state, and indeed there is no network traffic between mac mini and the AVR. Apparently iTunes doesn't even attempt to send the data to the AirPlay device. I see that there are several multicast packets sent by the AVR during this time, apparently some kind of Bonjour stuff.
Any hint what might be wrong, or another idea how to fix this? Was there any known-buggy AirPlay update to Mac OS X during the period?

Okay, so tried one more thing and found the culprit - the problem no longer appears after I switch off 'Allow iTunes audio control from remote speakers' preference in iTunes. Apparently this problem happens due to an interaction between the AVR (Denon AVR-1912) and iTunes.
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