ATV2 Locking iTunes EVERY TIME (5 Units/3 Macs)

Ok this is now just become stupid. I have 5 apple tvs, 3 are the ATV2s and 2 are ATV1.
If I try watch ANYTHING from an ATV2 my iTunes immediately stops responding. I have home share on 3 of my macs and tried all three, same result on each mac. It doesn't matter which ATV2 or which iTunes, it locks up.
It did this about 80% of the time after the last iTunes update and now with 10.2.2 it locks up 100% even with the latest ATV2 firmware.
Do I get support from Apple? NO ... you get nothing, nothing for investing in this much tech. Apparently ATV2s only have 90 day warranties ...
Do the ATV1s still work, kinda - sometimes the sync kills iTunes but at least synced content plays.

I was finally able to fix this - firstly, it was only TV Shows that caused a lockup and not movies or music.
I went into my library (after backing up manually) and deleted ALL the TV Shows, kept original file on disk. A few really didn't want to delete and it took a couple tries. I then added back a season at a time of each show, tested the ATV to make sure it was still ok. I finally ended up with ALL the TV Shows added back but the ATV was now working fine. I'm guessing I had some corruption in the library. What was just odd was why my other 2 macs did the same thing, different libraries and different TV Shows ... but fixed the same way.

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