Another remote speakers question!!

Ok, I've done a search of the forum but can't seem to find any answers to this one!
I have a mac and two laptop pc's and an Airport Express all connected to my network. The mac is connected by ethernet and the PC's are wireless. The Express is set up in client mode and connects with no problems to my existing network.
When I run iTunes on the mac, all is fine, I see the remote speakers connected to the Express and the same also on one of my pc's. The other pc does not see it in iTunes but it can see the Express in the admin utility.
I'm very confused as to why it works on iTunes on one pc and not the other. They are almost both set up identically.
Are there any other settings that can affect iTunes seeing remote speakers? I've tried the check boxes many times and also wiping and reinstalling iTunes but still no luck.
Any help would be appreciated as it's very frustrating not being able to get it working from al my computers!!
Thanks!
Rob.

OK, I'm getting a little closer to what I think is wrong. It seems iTunes uses a piece of software called 'Bonjour' for it's sharing applications such as airtunes and shared music.
This little annoying piece of software seems to have hidden itself within the pc somewhere and I can't find it to check if there is some conflict somewhere. I think I might possibly have two versions of it running somewhere.
I removed all the apple software from my pc and also as many of the apple registry settings that I could find and reinstalled iTunes and quicktime.
To my annoyance it still doesn't work but iTunes seems to have remembered my shared name settings so there must be a reg setting somewhere that I have missed.. I'm guessing it's something to do with 'Bonjour' again.
So if anyone has any advice they can give me about 'Bonjour' I would really appreciate it!!!
Thanks!
Rob

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I have two Airport Express in my house, which are great for playing music in different rooms remotely, powered by my primary PC in my office. However, I also am buying a PC for my living room to put above the fireplace. There is no room for another set of speakers for another Airport Express there, and I don't want to buy another one. What'd I'd like to do is use this new PC running iTunes as a set of remote speakers, recognized in iTunes like the Airport Express speakers. That way I could play the same music at the same time in many rooms of my house.
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Hello.
Any feature requests can be submitted to the following links below
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
http://www.apple.com/feedback/airportexpress.html
*With Airtunes you are able to stream music to multiple speakers meaning
1. Multiple Airport Expresses connected to Multiple speakers
2. Multiple Expresses connected to Speakers & also hearing the audio from the computer it is broadcasting from.
Now the bigger question I believe you are asking is can other computers pickup on this broadcast of sound?
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108044
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Thank you for the quick suggestions. Here are the facts:
1) iTunes host are on the same network subnet as the AX. I can see both of them on my router. The iMac which the iTunes is running can ping the AX. In fact, the remote speaker is listed in the popup window that shows the built-in Speaker as "Computer" and the name of the AirTune on the AX.
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1) Hard-resetting the AX
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Please help me! Please for the love of the mac guy on tv who encouraged me to switch.
I've been a happy mac user. I am not all that technically saavy and hence switched to a mac because "it just works." I bought the airport express and hooked it up through my WIRED network so that I could play tunes on my stereo from iTunes. Things have worked amazing and have had no problems until now. I don't even have the option now to look at remote speakers.
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That's the other thing, AirPort setup assistant doesn't allow me to get very far. I get to the introduction page and click continue to begin. Then I get an error message saying I have no AirPort card installed (which is true, but not necessary because I'm on a wired network to get to the airport express base station).
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