Front Row from NAS Drive?

Hi,
I've just finished loading up around 300GB of CDs onto a Maxtor 500GB NAS Drive, which is connected via ethernet to our Airport Extreme, with a MacMini as the iTunes "Host" computer. This in turn has an ipod touch synced with it with Remote (basically we attempted an Apple version of the Sonos system!)
One problem we do have however is that despite the MacMini's iTunes library appearing under Shared on all of our Macs' on the same wireless network, we cannot pick the same MacMini from the "Sources" setting in Front Row.
I've checked out the network settings on the Mini, but surely everything must be ok, seeing as we can play the music directly from iTunes?
The reason I'm testing this now is I'm thinking of getting an AppleTV, so would really like to make sure this all works before buying it...
Thanks in advance!

Ok, so now when I try and access the Mac Mini's iTunes (which is on the 500GB Maxtor NAS drive) from any other Mac on the network (in this case my Mac Pro) The MacMini's iTunes immediately crashes and burns...
Nothing setting wise has changed...
Is there anything particularly obvious I'm missing here? Or is iTunes just not designed to do "networking" this way?

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