ITunes remote Speakers button and AppleTV (2nd gen)

Having followed the iTunes Help instruction "Choose which speakers to use" there is still no Speakers button appearing. I'm successfully using my wireless network for ATV2 and can watch movies, internet, and access my iMac Playlist, but am unable to use the ATV to play my iTunes selections from my iMac.

My apologies to Axel7 because you have diagnosed the problem correctly.
Even though I had set Airplay to 'On', somewhere along the way it has reverted to 'Off'. My error.
Straying outside my original question for a moment, ... to a certain extent it is too easy to blame a new product in the early stages when one is going through an unfamiliar process, so I'm reluctant now to assume that iTunes is waking itself up, but it is in fact awakening without my direct intervention. I've tried putting ATV2 to sleep, then restarting my computer to see if ATV2 woke up with a prod from Bonjour, but this does not seem to be the case.
So, either the unexpected wake-up is a feature that I don't know how to control, or there is a bug in the firmware. Most probably the former, but there is an open thread "Discussions > Apple TV (2nd generation) > Home Sharing with Apple TV" with 52 entries from people with problems, so there could be a real glitch to be fixed.
Thanks again Axel7.

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