Apple TV dropping sound

Hi all,
There seem to be lots of variations of this question around at the moment, but I'll start afresh. My Apple TV2 is connected wirelessly to a Belkin router. The ATV is connected to the TV via HDMI and to a standalone (ie: not blu-ray/DVD player) surround sound system vie optical.
Without touching anything, the sound can play through the TV and surround system at the same time, I can choose which one I want to listen to, but without warning it will stop playing through the selected one, but play happily through the other, or vice versa, but sometimes nothing at all. Rebooting doesn't seem to help, but I can go away, come back later and all's well again.
Sometimes the connection through the HDMI lead will die on me - both picture and sound. I've tried 3 leads now and a friend has exactly the same problem, which makes me think it's not a hardware problem.
Just gets really annoying when you're 5 minutes from the end of a movie and there's no sound!!
Any pointers appreciated.
thanks
Trev

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