Apple TV Movie Streaming Errors

My 40 GB ATV has been very tempermental when I try to stream from my iMac. Sometimes it works great, sometimes it kinda works where my movies need to rebuffer frequently, and more often than not I get a "No content found error".
Oddly enough there have been instances where I get a "No content found error" when streaming, I try streaming another movie which will work and I got back to my original movie and it works.
There has also been another instance where a movie is streaming just fine, it rebuffers and gets stuck. I then go back to menu and reselect the movie and I get a "No content found error".
Here is some info on my set up environment. I have a iMac connected wirelessly with 802.11n enabled with full reception, ATV with full reception, and an Airport Extreme. My iMac is running iTunes 7.4.2 and my library is loaded on an external hard drive via Firewire. (Seagate Free Agent 750 GB) My full length movies (1-2 hours) are encoded either by Handbrake or iSquint and are between 500MB - 1.5 GB in size.
Here are some other quirky things I noticed on my ATV. When I play movies that are resident on ATV, they sometimes take about 15 - 30 seconds to load. When they do it goes through that rebuffer sequence as if it were streaming. Should it start playng instantly since it is on the local hard drive? I sometimes even get a "No content found error".
What's really odd, is that things seemed to go haywire when I moved the ATV from my theater room to my master bedroom. When I had it in my theater room, the thing hummed. Worked flawlessly most of the time.
But here are some things to note about the environment between the home theater scenario and master bedroom scenario:
Master Bedroom Scenario: outlined above.
Home Theater Scenario: iMac had full reception, ATV had 3/4 reception. At that time I had a Western Digitial My Book 500 GB drive connected to my Airport Extreme via USB which hosted my iTunes Library. Oddly enough, at some point iTunes automatically changed my iTunes Library folder from the Western Digitial My Book 500 GB to my iMac internal hard drive.
Since things were a little quirky after I move the ATV to my master bedroom I did a Factory Restore hoping to wipe the slate clean. This helped a little, but the ATV is not running as smoothly as it did out of the box.
Could this be perhaps that I am running my iTunes library on an external Hard Drive? Please note, that my iMac and Hard Drive go into sleep mode when inactive after a certain amount of time.
Any thoughts anyone? Similar encounters? Thanks!

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