IPads, iPhones, and Apple TVs can no longer load home sharing library after 2 years

I have been using home sharing for the past few years and streaming my music, movies, and TV shows to my Apple TVs, iPads, and iPhones. A couple weeks ago it stopped working. On all the devices I see the library (Familys Library) but when I go to load it fails to load. The iPads and iPones get to about half of the circle and fails. On the Apple TV I think the message just is "Cannot load Library"
I have tried restarting all of my devices but that has not helped. I changed the account that the home sharing is setup for and that did not help. I rebooted the Windows machine multiple times. I disabled home sharing, rebooted, restarted home sharing, all to no avail. The library system is connected over Etehrnet so I made the system to a different port on the router with no luck. I have also unplugged the router nad plugged it back in, also with no luck.
So, I will try replacing the ethernet cable but I do not see that as being the issue. It seems like something on that computer.
Going through the Programs it looks like iTunes and Quicktime were both updated on 3 June, right around the time this started to occur. I also loaded items for my duaghters Nook, Adobe Digital Editions, so that she can get books. I removed the items that I loaded for the nook and that did nto fix the issue. I would like to downgrade iTunes, but I cannot find an old copy of iTunes plus I do not know if this will destroy the library contents.
My questions would be
1. Can I find an older version of iTunes
2. Can itunes be removed from the computer and reinstalled without the iTunes library getting blown away? I have a lot of moveis and descriptions and information located in the Get Info that would just stink to lose
3. Could this be a corrupt library and is there a way t verify the library?
4. Any other things I can do and check
Thanks for any insight and help
Cheers
Dave

All the cutting and pasting and I forgot the machine information:
OS: Windows 7 x64
Memory: 8G
Current iTunes: 11.0.4
Thanks

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