Airtunes won't play multiple speakers on Leopard 10.5.1

Airtunes won't play multiple speakers on Leopard 10.5.1
Everything was fine until Software Update to Leopard 10.5.1 last week.
Works great on other Tiger-Macs but not on new Leopard-Macbook 2.2
While attempting itunes launch with airtunes - Message window says:
An error occurred while connecting to the remote speakers "Airtunes". Unknown error (-3256)
Will play on computer speakers, or airtunes speakers but not both.
Anyone experiencing similar??

I have been plagued with the same problem as most here since installing Leopard. For some reason or another I could not setup AirTunes and view multiple speakers using my G5.
Now I realize that not everyone has a laptop and a desktop but here's what worked for me...
After a hard reset I created a network to airtunes using my PowerBook G4 and Airport Utility. At this point I was able to stream music to airtunes. I then changed the AirTunes settings, via the G4 to join my existing network, my linksys WRT54G router.
Like magic everything is back to normal. I can access iTunes multiple speakers on both my G5 and my G4 PowerBook just like I did when I had 10.4 loaded.
Just my 2 cents...

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