AirTune with multiple speakers

I tried to play back the music on my laptop speaker and the remote speaker through airport express at the same time.
My airport express fireware is the lastest 6.3 and iTune is 6.0.2. I can select multiple speakers in iTune but when I tried to play it, it gave me an errors said it can't connect to my airport express (error -3256). However, if I just select one remote speaker not the multiple one, nothing goes wrong.
Anyone has suggestion?
Thank you

I have a different problem with the multiple speakers option (which I got after installing firmware 6.3):
When selecting both the computer and the airport express to play music, the sound output from the airport is intermittent. Instead, if I select only the airport, it sounds fine. Is perhaps this due to the quality of the wireless signal? I have the impression that after upgrading to the newest firmware the signal strenght has decreased (5 out of 15 bars in the internet connect status indicator).
If this is the case, is there any way to improve it (select manually channel? changing authentication method? now I selected WPA2)
Thanks a lot
Marco
iBook Mac OS X (10.3.9)
iBook Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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Welcome to Apple Support Communities! I'd check out the following article, it looks like it applies to your situation:
iPod: Appears in Windows but not in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1363
You'll want to go through the following troubleshooting steps, and for more detail on each step follow the link to the article above:
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