ITunes Home share disappears ,restarting iTunes fixes for a while.

I have a PC server (no monitor) with a newly installed win 7x64, latest updates, and latest iTunes. Homesharing is enabled.
This is connected to a gigabit HP Procurve switch.
An apple TV2 ,wireless accesspoint, and ADSL modem are also connected to the same switch (and several other intel PC's around the house).
I use my iPhone to select the iTunes homeshare, and airplay to the apple tv.
This works just fine for about 1/2 hour or more , but then the homeshare just disappears.
Restarting iTunes on the server fixes the problem , but, the home share drops out again.
When it goes down, I used the 'bonjour browser' on another networked pc (ie, not the itunes one) and the home share is not listed. So, I'm tending to think that itunes is 'crashing' internally somewhere.
I dont think it is the firewall, since it would either work all the time or not at all.
The apple tv is connected to the itunes server via a very good switch and ethernet cabling. It is a very simple setup.
This is highly frustrating since I've banked on apple products to power the music in my house. But, every 1/2 hour i've got to restart itunes. Annoying if I am hosting a party.
Any ideas?

The notebook and desktop cannot see each other, but they can see the netbook. I know that going forward, I will need to manually manage the ratings on both computers, bit I have smart playlists set up to do that. My main issue is that because I duplicating the exact same folders on the vista laptop tinthe windows 7 desktop, this threw something off in home share where they do not recognize each other. I need to know what was thrown off so I can fix it.

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