Apple TV stops playing music after 5 minutes requiring iTunes restart

I am using a 2nd gen Apple TV, Apple Airport Extreme, and a PC. Since the latest Apple TV update, whenever we play music from our iTunes library the music only plays a maximum of 5 minutes then stops. To get it to play again I have to exit iTunes on my PC and start it up again. There are no error messages to indicate what may have happened. I have tried a bunch of different things including restarting everything multiple times, disabling the screen saver on the Apple TV and restarting my router.
I have been using this particular Apple TV since release without issue and and have only experienced this since the last Apple TV update. Help!
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I have the same problem and haven't found an answer or seen one. I don't have any problems downloading/streaming off the net but the iTunes timeout is driving me crazy. Did you ever find the problem?

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