Itunes 7 with airtunes speakers

After installing iTunes 7 on several macs and networks .. I can't select my airtunes speakers. In older version iTunes I can use these airtunes speakers ...
What can that be?
michel
sorry close topic because of duplicate ...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=637159 is the right one

IPv6 must be turned on and than it works

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at first I have to excuse myself for my English, i come from Germany.
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Well, I am glad to hear that it isn't the settings, nor the TiVo plugged in. But that does leave me in a state of limbo, eh? To reiterate, I have restarted the iTunes running Mac (we also have an iBook, but it has been shut down for all these tests), and I did factory reset the Express.
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