Audio drops after 10 seconds, Airport Express, Windows XP,  iTunes

Looking for help with this.
Playing most any song in iTunes via Airport Express. At 9 to 11 seconds into each song, the audio drops out for about 1s, then comes back and continues to the end of the song. Occasionally the audio will drop in other places within a song. Annoying to say the least.
I have updated firmware to 6.3, and updated iTunes.
I have also tried changing almost all the settings in Airport Admin, I have it set to 40 bit WEP encryption, "interference robustness" enabled, multicast @2, and so on. If I change these settings, the problem gets worse.
(argh audio just dropped as I am writing this)
I live in an apartment building with several other wireless networks visible.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Brian
Asus Z71V   Windows XP  

Hi. I also had this problem, running Windows XP with SP2
and the latest iTunes for Windows and the latest firmware
for my two airport expresses. I would get a dropout from
both expresses at around 12 seconds after a song would
start to play. This happened for every song.
I noticed using the Windows process monitor that the CPU would go to 100% at around 12 seconds after a song started.
I located the process that forced this, and it was called
'ashserv.exe'. This is the main executable run by Avast
Secure antivirus software. I'm running the free version.
I changed the level for avast from high level scanning to normal and my problem is gone.

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