ITunes timeouts when connecting to remote speakers?

When trying to connect to a remote set of speakers (Airport Express/Airtunes), iTunes times out. The set of speakers shows in the menu, iTunes attempts to connect for some time, and then "gives up" - there is no error message. Any suggestions?
iTunes 7.0.2, Airport Express firmware 6.3.
Thanks.

At times, instead of the time out, I get the following error message:
The remote speaker "Test" is not compatible with this version of iTunes
This happens even though iTunes and the Airport Express are up to the latest versions, respectively.
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Cannot connect to my remote speakers, worked before iTunes 8"
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I just tried what you said to do, i had it in Automatic, but when I momenterely switched to manual the fields were all blank so I left them that way and turned on to automatic as you said and left it in auto, then tried to change itunes speaker to remote airplay and it didn t work.
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in the old system one could turn it off completely, now the off button is gone.
there are work around using terminal, I tried that but it doens t recognize my commands, so it didn t work either.
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