ITunes Suddenly Started Skipping when streaming to Aiport Express

Hello:
I have a nice setup at home to stream music from my basement to my garage. I've had this setup going for
about three months and it's worked aboslutely great. Here's my setup:
* Desktop PC running XP SP3 that has iTunes and the source music files, wired to a Lynksys wireless router
* Airport Express setup to join the existing wirless network
* Logitech Squeezebox Internet Radio on the same network (Airport Express run into this as Line In)
* iPhone
When using the radio, sometimes I'd be using it as an internet radio, but a lot of times, I was using the
Remote app on my iPhone to stream iTunes to the Airport Express. Works great. Yesterday, it started
skipping really badly, to the point of not being able to listen to it. This started all of a sudden, with
no updates being run or changes being made to the system. I'm stumped. Here's what I know so far through
troubleshooting:
* First I thought it was the Airport. Did a restore on that and completely set it up again. This didn't help. But then I did a test run streaming music from my iPhone to the Airport. This worked great with no issues. So the Airport is working fine apparently.
* There doesn't seem to be any issue with my wireless network because 1) I can stream from iPhone to Airport, and 2) the internet radio still works flawlessly pulling from the "server" software that's on the desktop PC.
* Then I thought I might be having an issue with the hard drive keeping up, but my internet radio has the ability to play music directly from their source files, without interfacing with iTunes. This also works great.
So this points me to the iTunes software itself. When I sit down at iTunes and select the destination, it plays to "My Computer" without issue. It skips on when set to the Airport. However, when I choose "Multiple" and turn on "My Computer" and the Airport together, BOTH skip.
I ran the diagnostic test on iTunes and all passed. Rebooted several times, no help. So I uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes. No help.
I'm about out of ideas here. Like I said, this worked great for a few months, and all of a sudden went screwy. Suggestions? Thanks!

Your Windows Firewall is preventing communication.
Streaming iTunes requires the following ports to be open:
UDP 5353
TCP 3689
Open them in your Windows Firewall application, anti-virus, or security software.

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