AppleTV screensaver playing my photos (without sync)

After the Leopard upgrade I found that I can stream photos (vs having to sync them as it was before)- which is great (don't have to constantly update what albums get sync'd, etc.). Trouble now is that I can't find an option to play any of MY photos in screensaver mode (and when music is playing) on the Apple TV, etc (It just plays the "canned Apple stock photos that live on the Apple TV's drive). If I sync the Apple TV to my Mac (and it's iTunes) then I can't stream photos. Ideas?

I found that the only way to stream photos is to choose to sync only a few photos and then disable syncing in iTunes, then for whatever reason, all of my photos are available to stream. Go figure...

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