Airport Express disconnects (via WLAN and ethernet)

Hi guys,
I recently moved to another flat. After re-building my audio setup I did a upgrade to the firmware of my Airport Express.
Now it keeps disconnecting, after an hour or two. The stream from iTunes just stops. I first used the Wifi connection and later changed to ethernet, to make sure there is no issue about the wireless connection.
It is obviously not. The stream still stops after some time. If I try a restart iTunes keeps telling me the Airport would not be available.
The only possible solution is a reboot of the Airport (which ***** btw).
Any suggestions?

Hey guys.
In case this helps someone. I was having the exact same problem, and though I didn't find an answer, I did find a workaround.
I use my Airport Express to listen to my iTunes music on my Home Theater.
I tried installing different firmware versions, but that didn't work, so what I tried was to disable authentication on my wireless router. And the Airport Express stopped disconnecting.
What I did though, was to enable Mac Filtering on the router and disable SSID broadcasting so that it wouldn't be so "open" to the world.
So, I guess the Airport express is having some kind of issue with maintaining its connection to the wireless router when using WPA/WPA2 authentication.
I didn't try changing authentication to WEP, because frankly, WEP is not so secure, and as I don't get that many visitors that want to use my Internet Access while at home and as I don't mind fetching their Mac Address and putting it in the router if they needed it, this works perfectly for me.
The next time that a firmware update comes I'll try it again under the normal setup.
Meanwhile, hope this helps
Cheers

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