Apple TV Shows Up, Tries To Sync, Then Disappears

Well I've spent a couple hours reading threads and searching because I knew I've seen other people having issues with Apple TV showing up in iTunes, but I haven't read about quite the same problem nor have I found an answer.
This isn't a problem with mine. My dad recently got an Apple TV. Two weeks ago I went over, got it set up, copied their entire music and photo library plus about 60GB of movies. No problems. Last week when I was there, I was trying to copy one more movie but was having problems getting iTunes to see the Apple TV. I finally gave up and streamed the movie to show him and my mother. I forgot about the problem, but my dad called me yesterday saying he couldn't get music he purchased from the Apple TV over to the computer. Figures. Apple TV is still not showing up in iTunes. Apple TV has no problem connecting to the internet though and no problem streaming from iTunes.
Between what I was trying last weekend and what I've had him do, I can't think of anything else. Restarting either the Mac or the Apple TV allows for iTunes to see the Apple TV for a moment or two. It appears to attempt a sync, then disappears from the Devices list.
The Apple TV is connecting to the network via WiFi. He doesn't have a dedicated router though. The Mac is connected to DSL via Ethernet and Sharing is on to computers via WiFi. Again Apple TV has no problems streaming or connecting to the outside world. Laptops and iPods have no problem on this shared network either.
Can anyone think of anything I could try, or maybe point me to a thread I might not have found?
Thanks!

Sorry for starting this thread now - hours too late. The thread I knew was here somewhere popped up. I'll keep this all over there and shut this down. Thanks.

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