ITunes Sharing Drops out with Xserve G5

Hello All,
I have an Xserve G5 running 10.4.11, and clients running 10.4.9. We're running iTunes 7.5 everywhere. The server sits on a university network, but does dole out IP adresses for a subnet existing in a computer lab. So, I am using the server to do some iTunes sharing, which are listening assignments for a class. To my knowledge, this is the only way to share the same iTunes playlist with the university and my computer lab's networks.
Problem is, iTunes doesn't show up in Macs that are booted up after the Xserve has already launched iTunes. Any computer that was launched before the Xserve iTunes launched can quit and relaunch iTunes, always finding the share. But reboot the client, and the shared iTunes cannot be found.
Interestingly, say the Xserve iTunes is showing up fine everywhere. If, on a client, I open the local iTunes preferences and turn OFF sharing (both looking for share and sharing local with others) and then turn it back on again - the Xserve iTunes disappears from EVERY client.
Did I miss a setting somewhere? It's very buggy, and random. There may be other things that make the Xserve iTunes disappear, but this is the only method I've found to make it happen while I'm watching.
We have a few clients sharing iTunes on the university network, it is always rock solid. So there is something about the server that is making this happen. Anybody have any thoughts on this? I really appreciate all ideas.
Thanks.

To add, just tried sharing iTunes with Network Beacon, to no avail. Then I get two iTunes shared, but both behave in the same way.

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