Genius playlist creation doesn't work

When I go to any title, press and hold the play/pause button and select "Start Genius", AppleTV always tells me that Genius is not available for this track. But Genius works fine for the same tracks on my iPod nano and from within iTunes.
Ideas?

OK, I solved my own problem. Restored AppleTV to factory settings (i.e. software version 1.0), upgraded to version 2.2 and re-synced all my content. Genius playlist creation now works like it should.
I've been an AppleTV customer since version 1.0 came out and have never restored the AppleTV since. It's likely that something got corrupted during one of those upgrades and that the problem would never have occured with a newer, out-of-the-box AppleTV.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

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