Airport Utility 5.1 - DO NOT INSTALL

Sorry for sounding so alarming. I have been running Airport Utility 5.0 with my Airport Extreme-N and Airport Express. Airtunes has been working well with both.
However, as soon as I installed today's update version 5.1, it started cutting out again, dropping my shared library from the network and making Airtunes impossible to listen to.
I don't know why Apple is having so much trouble getting this software right. Anyway, I restored to version 5.0 and it's working fine again, although I need to keep the Utility open at all times to get Airtunes or Shared Libraries to work on my PC.

Follow the instructions posted by forum expert Tesserax in this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21397085#21397085

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