Ethernet Network ATV lost from iTunes and it wont come back!!!

Hi everyone
Had this happen a couple of times now.
I've got a 160GB ATV connected to a 1080P display. Mac Mini is host for all things iTunes. All software is latest versions incl. ATV. ATV is connected to network via ethernet as is Mac Mini.
Most of the time if the Mac Mini is restarted and iTunes restarted it will appear again in the ATV Sources menu as highlighted and the ATV will appear in the iTunes sources list. However, this is the second time now that it has been lost from the sources and I can't get it back!!!
The first time it happened I just turned off syncing and reset the connection but there is now loads of stuff to go back and the syncing will take forever! Also slightly annoying is that a lot of the video content is TV shows recorded using EyeTV throughout the week and I have noticed that the ATV does not date TV shows according to when they added to iTunes rather it dates them when the are synced so that that makes life difficult when trying to watch episodes in order. Therefore I would like to avoid having to re-sync everything from scratch if I can!
Is there any way I can force ATV to show up in the devices list?
FYI The first time it happened, I seemed to lose iTunes Sharing completely - not even my PowerBook could pick up the shared Mac Mini library but this time it is different. The Mini sees the PowerBook and vice versa but the ATV is completely excluded.
The ATV can be pinged and it can see the internet and YouTube etc but NOT the Mac Mini it seems. I have restarted everything, reset everything I can think of and turned off the firewall but to no avail.
Any ideas?

Looks like you've done all the obvious things - quite irritating I would imagine.
I may be wrong but I think the problem is more one of iTunes not seeing the AppleTV rather than AppleTV not being to access the Mac. Your YouTube/Movie tariler functionality as you probably know is independent of iTunes as the AppleTV connects directly to the internet, not via iTunes.
Looks like you may need to go down the route of disabling syncing and re-syncing unfortunately - though it's probably quicker to restart everything again a few times first just in case.
AC

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