AirPlay not working through AirPort Express

I am running the latest Lion, iTunes and MacBook Pro — all updates.
The AirPort Express is older, so I use AirPort Utily 5.6.
However, all of a sudden, after the last iTunes update, AirPlay no longer works, I get the message:
An unknown error (-15006) occurred while connecting to the AirPlay device “AirPlay”.
What do I do? How do I fix this? I have tried turning it on and off, doesn't help.

Don't know. Not my area of expertise. I was just trying to help in some way. You can check this:
Troubleshooting AirPlay and AirPlay Mirroring

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