Airport extreme stops itunes stream after 30 secs

Hi guys, I am on my second airport extreme now after getting a replacment one from apple. All i really want to do with it is stream my itunes to my hi fi. It didn't work straight out of the box as I was told it would. I set it up on MacBook Pro, brought it downstairs (no longer conected to my modem) switched it on, light eventually went green, found the device on my itunes, ran my music through it and it played for about 30secs, music cut off, the light on the Airport Extreme went to flashing orange and I have to restart the power up to get it back to green. And it does the same again when I try...
Any ideas whats giong wrong, this is the second device to do this...

Same problem but I'm not on shared library.
Only one MBP with iTunes library connected directly wired via firewire
to external HD. Audio out is wired from minjack on
MBP to RCA inputs on back of tv. Video is directly from MBP via DVI.
Frontrow and iTunes both stop after just a few minutes and tv reads "no input signal"
Audio stops at this point also. I usually have an a/v reciever connected.
System prefs have screensaver set to never. Frontrow I've tried setting off and on.
The only way I can have more than 2 minutes with the exception of iTunes wit fullscreen visualizer.

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