Front Row movie trailers not working

Hi all,
Is anyone else experiencing trouble with the movie trailers on Front Row?
Whenever I select Movie Trailers I immediately get the message "The movie trailer server is not responding" instead of the list of movies.
This happens immediately as though Front Row hasn't actually bothered to look for the server at all but has simply decided that it isn't available.
The situation is the same for all users on the machine.
I've trashed com.apple.frontrow.plist but this didn't help - not surprising really as the only data I've seen stored in there is the last selected Front Row mode (movies,music,etc)
While researching this problem I found out that the actual address of the movie server is http://www.apple.com/trailers/home/xml/current.xml and sure enough if I access this address in Safari it works absolutely fine.
Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance, I really miss those trailers!
Ian
Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Hi Ian,
Just curious, but you have downloaded the Front Row update.

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