Disrupted Playback using AirTunes/Airport Express

I've been having intermittent trouble with playback using Airtunes. Songs will play, then cut out... the song is still progressing in iTunes, but with no sound. Sometimes it will flicker in and out. Sometimes it won't. Sometimes quitting and relaunching solves it. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it coincides with when my Time Capsule is backing up. Sometimes not. It's infuriating to try to problem solve it because it's so sporadic.
Tonight I can only get about 6 seconds of playback each time I double click on a song.
Is anyone else having these difficulties besides me and my Mom (who doesn't live here and has her own setup that's not working?)

This has been on ongoing problem.... I was hoping that iTunes 10 would have found a way to resolve this... But alas this is not the case as it is the very problem that brought me to the discussion boards today. It is infuriating as AirTunes is my only music resource at home. I have been using it for the past five years and the problem of the sound cutting out and/or sputtering is no better now than it was back in 2005 when I first started using it.
It is downright embarrassing when I have guests over and the music constantly cuts out... Makes convincing my PC fan friends why they should switch to Apple a bit more challenging.
You would think that with all the resources Apple has at their beck and call, they could make AirTunes actually function as described... But clearly this is not a priority. Sad really...
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