Itunes 10.1 Windows 7 and missing airport express speakers

First, let me say that although this is my first post, I have been lurking here and exploring the forums for a long time. I have windows 7 64bit, an airport express (so that I can play my music remotely on my stereo) and an ipad. Everything works great under itunes 9.x. However, I wanted to upgrade my ipad, which required me to upgrade to itunes 10.x. The ipad update went well, but I no longer have the option to select my remote speakers in itunes or the remote app on the ipad.
I have searched the forums and have performed the following: 1) unselected and reselected both homesharing and folder sharing in itunes, 2) Unselected and reselected 'search for remote devices' in itunes, 3) Changed settings in windows firewall to ensure the 'private' profile for itunes had both udp and tcp protocols, with transverse edge detection on, 4)reset windows firewall and then reinstalled itunes 10.x at least four times, 5)ensured that I can reach my airport express through airport utility on that same computer.
I am at my wits end with this. If I try to reinstall itunes 9.x, it tells me that my library has already been updated and itunes 9 does not open. I would really like to be able to run version 10 and would appreciate any further suggestions.
Thanks,
Brock

Just to let everyone know. I believe my issue was with Comodo Internet Security software. Even though I had the firewall portion off, after uninstalling the airport express speakers came back. Note...I had this configuration working fine with iTunes 9, but 10 must've had some underlying changes.
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