Connecting to Library Takes Forever

I LOVE my AppleTV! There are only a couple things that really bother me about it. The first is that it takes about 15 minutes to connect to my library. This is totally not acceptable, especially when there hasn't been any changes to the library at all. Granted, I do have a large library, but come on, 15 minutes every time! Once its all connected, everything works flawlessly (for the most part) and is pretty speedy.
Does this happen to anyone else?
Cheers
Joe
PS. My other major gripe is that you can't have playlists for movies . . . . come on Apple (you better not say I have to buy gen 2 to get this feature)

Here is how to find out how large your iTunes database is:
1. Navigate to Home->Music->iTunes
2. Right Click on "iTunes Library" and click "Get Info" (This is your iTunes database)
3. Look at the size attribute of this and it will tell you how large your database is.
Here are some details about my library:
Total Number of Songs: 32,421
Total Number of Movies: 685
Total Number of TV Shows: 100
Total Number of Podcasts: 540
iTunes Library size (all content): over 2TB (on a NAS)
iTunes Database size: 84.6MB
iTunes Library XML size: 54.9MB
I am still having the issue of the AppleTV taking forever to connect to my library.

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