Apple TV2 not playing rented movies

Hi folks,
Here's a problem which I've discovered since the latest software update for the appleTV:
I regularly rent movies via the iTunes store on my iPad2.  Usually in standard def.  I've had no trouble in the past viewing said videos on AppleTV - appearing in the top left of the Apple TV home screen under 'Purchased' or 'Rented' items.
On Sunday past,  I rented a film in the same way only to find that the rental did not appear on my AppleTV - I even did the whole 'check for rentals' thing via settings, but to no avail.  In the end, as I had friends round to watch the movie, I had to rent the movie a second time via my appleTV.
Phoned support last night who couldn't give me an explanation of why this might be, but did offer me a work-around - ie, play the movie on my iPad and send it via Airplay to my appleTV - I tried it last night while the guy from support was on the phone with me.  It worked with a rented movie on my iPad 'Stander'.  No problems.  So, I went ahead and rented 'In Time' on my iPad, sent to to Airplay as before only to get the message on my iPad 'Not authorised to play this content on the selected monitor device'.  However, the audio was playing via the AppleTV.  Tried again this morning to find that now not only isn't the audio not playing via AppleTV but I'm getting the yellow exclamation mark triangle on screen with the message 'Not Authorised to play this content'.
There is nothing wrong with my hardware as far as I can tell.  Everything else works as it should.  This is a problem which has suddenly occured since the last firmware/software update for AppleTV. 
Can someone offer me some help/explanation because Apple support both last night and today have been entirely useless.  While not able to offer me an explanation, they did however try to sell me extended phone support, which was nice...
So yeah, if anyone else can offer me any help/suggestions, it'd be much appreciated!
d.

I don't recall rentals made on an iPad ever also being available on AppleTV direct - they're not supposed to be:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1657?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
It's a long time since I rented on an iPad so that's not to say it never happened I just don't recall that you werer supposed to be able do to this.
Airplay however should work.
Funnily enough I tried Airplaying a movie my kids had started to watch on teh AppleTV2 yesterday and got audio only.  This was from a local iTunes library so easy to do direct on the unit - I'd only tried Airplay as it should have continued from where they were watching rather than ahving to manually naviagte to there.
AC

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