Airport Express - continually dropping airtunes

Upgraded to Leopard and seem to have created a job for life fixing everything... and Apple poked fun at MS for Vista
Two days ago and for the past 2+ years my G5 daily delivers tunes to the hifi via airtunes and an airport express. As of the last hour when i got as far as checking if iTunes is working after the archive / install i find my music plays for bursts of no more then 30 or 40 seconds with anything from 10 - 30 second gaps where the signal is being dropped. The G5 is also being erratic on the internet.
As a test i have itunes on this powerbook g4 OS X.4 and can play music to the same airport express unit with no dropping or any misbehavior.
All in all hardly a great advert for the supreme features of leopard so far.. anyone who can point me to my failing or a fix I would be grateful

this had nothing to do with bootcamp and was posted in wrong discussion sorry.... problem now cleared up by the apple keychain update

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Hi BillCilla,
If you are having intermittent but persistent drops in AirTunes via your AirPort Express, you may find the following article helpful:
Apple Support: AirTunes audio stream drops or cuts out
http://support.apple.com/kb/ta21538
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Nobody here knows as this is a user to user support forum. Speculation about future or possible Apple products is not allowed.
One product which can handle video which is available now is Elgato's eyeHome.
http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyehome
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Hello, I'm new to the board and appreciate the resource and any feedback you guys can provide.
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OSX 10.4.6
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G4 PB & Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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