Front Row in Snow Leopard fails with Airport Extreme disk

I'm using an Airport Extreme basestation (fast ethernet) to connect a USB hard drive over ethernet to my Mac Mini (1.83 Core 2 Duo with 1 GB RAM) running Snow Leopard. If I put an alias to my movies folder (all H264) on the Airport disk in my Movies folder on the Mini's HD, Front Row can see them. However, when I attempt to play a movie from the Airport disk, Front Row hangs with a black screen for several minutes and then reports an error relating to unrecognized file format. After this error Front Row will sometimes even fail to see other files that it previously saw on the Airport disk. If I move the same movies to the Movies folder on the Mini, Front Row sees them and plays them with no trouble. I did not rename the movies when I moved them to the Mini.
All of this worked properly in Leopard.
It seems as though Snow Leopard is losing connection to the Airport disk in Front Row, although the connected disk still works properly in Finder.
Any thoughts?

I have similar problems.
I have an AirPort Extreme with two USB hard drives connected to it. One drive is for media such as our iTunes library and some movies. The other drive is used as TimeMachine backup.
After upgrading to Snow Leopard we only have sporadic access to the media drive with our two laptops (MacBook Pro and MacBook) and the TimeMachine backups have stopped working completely because TM can not connect to drive. Sometimes Finder can se the drives, but most of the time it does not. When drives are visible in Finder, most of the time we can not browse the folders on the drives at all.
AirPort Utility can detect the AirPort Extreme but when I attempt to configure the unit manually the program can not read the AirPort Extreme's configuration.
The AirPort appears to work all right when it comes to accessing the internet.
Apple needs to fix this AirPort debacle ASAP!

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