Airport Admin Utility can see my AE, but Itunes can't

I have two AEs, one connected to the Internet the other in a far off bedroom. I want music only (no internet) in the bedroom. When I turn on the computer in the bedroom, itunes cannot see the BEDROOM Airport Express. The only way I can do it is to go into the room with Internet access which is my "main" airport express (call it OFFICE) and then walk back into the bedroom.
When I get back to the bedroom, itunes is able to see the BEDROOM airport express and use it. If I close the lid of the computer or shut it off, the next time I want to play music I need to go through this sequence. Airport Admin can see the BEDROOM AE but itunes doesn't list it as a speaker and displays a message about "BEDROOM Speakers are Unavailable, use Computer" (unless I go back to the OFFICE first to refresh it). I'ver tried re-booting, re-starting itunes, scanning, robustness, channels etc.
I just want to power on the Mac in the bedroom from scratch and have itunes see and use the Airport Express there that it already sees in Admin Utility.

Good tip! Didn't know about that. I'm at work right now, but will try it later tonight. Any other suggestions for me?
Connect to Server should be able to find the disk if it's on the Airport? I tried doing something similar with Disk Utility, but the AirDisk didn't show up in its sidebar. I mean, the Airport Utility knows it's there, and I have verified that the drive is good with a wired connection.
Additional info: We had a power outage last night, after power was back I powercycled everything and ran AirPort Utility, which prompted me to upgrade to 7.1.1. I did. Now I can't see the disk.
This used to happen once in awhile, but was always rectified by soft-resetting the AEBS and restarting the MacBook. Now even after doing that and downgrading to 7.1 firmware, I'm still having no luck.

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