Apple TV sync finally working

For what it's worth, I have finally figured out how to keep my ATV from crashing and rebooting during the sync process and also keep it in from disappearing from the device list in iTunes.
Setup: I have a fully Apple homogenous setup: iMac with Snow Leopard (10.6.1) running iTune 9.0.1 w/ethernet to Airport Extreme 802.11n (firmware 7.4.2) wireless stream to two 40GB ATVs (family room, living room). I use the ATV to stream everything with no media on either ATV.
I have previously tried everything recommended on these forums: reboots, reinstalls, trashed prefs, completely resetup wireless network, factory resets of ATVs, firmware upgrades/downgrades on Airport Extreme
My fix was simple;
1. Choose radio button to custom sync each ATV on the respective ATV device in iTunes. (For the record, I don't know if this has ANY bearing on the fix but it is the way mine is setup.)
2. Choose "Prevent Apple TV from syncing automatically" in the Apple TV pref pane within iTunes preferences.
After I checked this weeks ago, I have not lost either Apple TV from the device list and I can access all of my content from the ATV menus and no longer get the "There is no content available" message that i used to routinely get when I'd lose connections previously.
The ONLY pain that this setup has cost me is I need to manually kick off the sync process occasionally from within iTunes to ensure my library file on the ATVs accurately reflect my iTunes library file. Not bad compared to the constant frustration of never being able to use my ATV because it couldn't establish a connection or show the content from within iTunes.
This may help and it may seem obvious but it is the ONLY thing that has worked for me.
Message was edited by: Jamvan - Added clarification to existing setup.

My set up is an Airport Extreme, iMac (Snow Leopard 10.6.1, iTunes 9.02), and Apple TV with the 3.0 update. No luck with Syncing it just hangs until the ATV crashes.
I'm using the work around mentioned at the top but it is really irritating given I'm using all Apple technology. By the way the Firewall is off on my iMac however I do have a large iTunes library 300Gigs. I just wonder if it's too big for the ATV to sync successfully.

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