Cannot select Airport Express as speaker from iTunes

I have installed iTunes 7.6.2.9 on a MS Windows Vista Home Premium, and I get the speaker selector in the lower right corner as I´m used to, since I have an Airport Express connected to my stereo. I can also click the name of the AE, but the selection stays at "This computer".
The settings in the AE does not give me a clue as to what is wrong. Can anyone here help? Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
David List

Found the problem myself: the parental control settings in MS Windows Vista, which I had turned on for the sake of logging activity on my non-privileged user account. I had set the settings for this account so that nothing was restricted - it was just the logging that was done. Nevertheless, this was what gave me the problem with external speaker, and also with iTunes Store generally dying on me - or at least responding sloooooooooowly.
Best regards,
David List

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