IPhone when 'sleeping' loses Home Sharing connection to PC iTunes

This is something I found interesting....
I have a PC with iTunes and all my media (songs, movies, TV Shows) and a MacBook with it's own library of Apps.
I turn home sharing on both computers, and then from the iPhone 4 (after setting up Home Sharing of course) I can see both Libraries... all is good. But if the iPhone goes into sleep mode, after waking it up and going back into the iPod app, only the MacBook's library appears.
to get the library to re-appear I have to disconnect from the wi-fi and re-connect and all is well, till the phone goes to sleep again.
This behavior is the same on my wife's iPhone 3GS as well.
Odd...

As odd as this sounds. I ran a registry cleaner (RegCure), and ever since then, it's been pretty solid with the home sharing availability. Never cuts out, and it's been like this for days now. Not sure if it had something to do with it, but it's interesting to say the least.

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