ATV2 update / not show up in iTunes devices

Hi all of you who already are enjoying the update.
Does anyone can tell me whether the upgrade took care of the old, widespread problem of ATV not showing up or dropping from the device list in iTunes?

I left my iTunes 7.6 sync'ing overnight and throughout the day. ATV2 (MacOS 10.5.1) seems to sync much much slower than AVT1 with 10.5.2.
Anyhow, I returned from work with iTunes in some 'crashed' state: it was responsive, but the itunes store was full of incomplete images and the browse views were incorrect. No devices listed.
I went to turn on my TV connected with ATV2 to find that ATV2 then seems to flicker (renegotiate tv resolution) three times before displaying video. ATV1 did NOT do this. I recall when this (renegotiate tv resolution last night) it resulted in ATV2 reboot (eg, 'sea-of-video' movie playing) on two separate occasions. Does that mean ATV2 needs my 'energy-hog' plasma TV on the whole time while sync'ing?!?! ATV1 did not have this problem!
Then, there were no sync status on ATV2. I returned to reboot iTunes 7.6 to find that it started to sync with ATV2 and then 'devices' not listed. But, ATV2 is busy 'copying' files. When I returned to iTunes 7.6, it seems to 'restart' the sync'ing of the files ATV2 was just copying.
I'm really confused as to what the heck ATV2 is now doing with iTunes 7.6. I'm using the 'default' automatic setting ... I though of giving Apple the 'freshman try' before taking over.
ps I'm also noticing that most of the 'album/preview/poster' are is missing on ATV2 but available while on ATV1. Anyone else notices that?

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function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
// simple hostname
if (dnsDomainLevels(host) == 0) {return "DIRECT";}
// match Host against local domains (w/ optional :port)
var dom = /(127\.\d.d+.d+|.local.?|10.d+.d+.d+|.home.lan.?)(:d)?/;
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