Audio continues to freeze, and drop over AirPlay

I have two recurring problems with iTunes, and I'm at a loss at how to solve them. Every bit of research and forum-scouring I've done has turned up nothing but the obvious trouble-shooting steps, all of which I've taken. I'm hoping perhaps there might be some others out there who have figured out some sort of a solution so this doesn't just end up as "Apple Needs to Fix It" (which seems to be the case more often these days )
Two Recurring Issues with iTunes
Problem 1 - AirPlay “drops” and completely stops working
Open iTunes
Play a song – already “connected” to 2 Speakers;my computer, and my AppleTV
On initial play, AppleTV NEVER plays. It just doesn’t “realize”, for lack of a better word, that it’s being expected to play.
Through iTunes or the Remote app on iPhone I have to un-select AppleTV as a Speaker, and then re-select it. Once I do this AirPlay starts working on AppleTV and audio is heard.
AirPlay will continue to intermittently “drop”and AppleTV will just randomly stop working. I have to do the same thing – open speakers, un-select and re-select AppleTV – to get it working again. Over, and over, and over again.
Problem 2 - iTunes Playback “freezes”
This happens just as frequently as problem 1.
This seems to be more of an iTunes issue, as it happens even when I am NOT using AirPlay, and only My Computer has beenselected as a Speaker.
iTunes will simply “freeze”. Playback stops. I can’t interact with iTunes at all – no stop, FF, Skip, new song, etc. Nothing.
It remains frozen for very random lengths of time. Maybe 5 seconds, maybe 60.
Eventually it “catches” up to itself and un-freezes, and playback resumes.
It seems that once it happens once, it continues to happen in regular succession so much so that iTunes becomes essentially worthless and I have to shut it down as I can’t listen to anything.
I get no problems with CPU being hosed when these issues crop up. My computer specs are more than sufficient to avoid such problems for appropriately coded programs.
iTunes 10.5.2.11
Core 2 2.4 GHz quadcore
8 GB Ram
7200rpm HDrive, nicelydefragged.
Linsys E3000, firmwareup to date.
Win 7 64bit
Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks

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