ITunes Automatically Uses AirPlay Speakers As Default Speakers

I'm currently experiencing a bug where iTunes automatically chooses my Apple TV as my speakers and screen (over AirPlay) instead of my computer. So whenever I play a movie/TV show, I have to manually choose 'Computer' from the dropdown box to get it to show on my iMac and stop it from playing on my Apple TV downstairs. What's worse is that it resets to my Apple TV after every video, meaning I have to reselect my speakers every time I pick a new track. I've tried reinstalling, restarting and updating (both Apple TV and iTunes), I can't think of any other way to stop it short of turning off 'Look for remote speakers connected with AirPlay' in preferences and losing a great feature...
Needless to say, the whole thing is extremely irritating!
I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing this, or if I'm missing something in settings?
Heres a video I took of the bug in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZc04w7Akew
Thanks in advance!

Same here, this one has me stumped. Have reset, restarted, renegotiated all connections.
My computers grab the apple TV instead of playing locally regardless of settings. One can "force" playback locally one item at a time but it will goof up whatever is happening on the Apple TV (small black puck version). Bug is new since the last round of updates. Level one apple cust service insist it isn't happening and that I am imagining it. Did not have the time and energy to escalate the call - why do they have to make it so hard to report a problem??
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