Airport Express error 15006 after period of no use

I have a network composed of a Time Capsule connected via ethernet to a Mac Mini running iTunes which broadcasts to three Airport Express stations. As long as I'm actively using it, I don't have any problems. When I come home from work, I can always count on an error 15006 in iTunes saying one of the Airport Express devices has disconnected. At this point, I have to stop and restart iTunes and everything is fine again. Since the Mac Mini is headless, running as a media server, this means pulling out my laptop and getting a remote desktop on the Mac Mini to restart iTunes - a daily ritual for months now.
I see a lot of discussion in here about restarting AEs and flashing firmware and whatnot, but it seems to me that iTunes just doesn't handle this situation properly, an error dialog is unnecessary when it could apparently just rescan the network and repair itself as it does on startup. Is there some other fix for this scenario? iTunes developers, could you please handle this sort of error differently with a more proactive approach?

John Galt wrote:
What a pain!
After the investment, and getting everything tuned in and working perfectly, having that outstanding issue was... quite painful to my psyche, yes
If you have a suggestion you should direct it via:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
I did that... no feedback, of course, but it sure does seem like the last iTunes update addressed it. The dialog is still left up, but it seems to rescan the airport express devices and make them available again, for instance, in the Remote application. Keeping my fingers crossed, but it's been awhile since I hauled out the remote desktop and restarted iTunes because of that error - it was a daily event.

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