Loading library, never streams, force quit iTunes

I can sync just fine, I can view movie trailers and YouTube with no glitches but I can't stream after changing sources, I just get the spinning wheel and it says loading my library, it gets stuck there and my iTunes freezes up and I have to force quit. I have only been able to stream once since I got my ATV and that was after a lot of talking with Apple Support. They had me do disk repairs, reinstall my original Panther disc, unmount and remount the ATV in iTunes plus unplugging it and re plugging it into the wall. It quit again after I changed sources and I have given up but I would really like to use my ATV for streaming the rest of everything that is not synced. I just tried setting it up for streaming only and it wouldn't load. I have my library on an external hard drive (usb 2.0) and I can share my iTunes library with my iBook over my airport express just fine. BTW I can stream from my iBook to the ATV. Any suggestions would be great!
G4 iMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

That's odd.
One thing it might be worth trying is to power down, turn off the external iTunes libray drive and reboot.
When you start iTunes create a new test iTunes library on your Mac's internal drive and see if it can stream from that.
I have my iTunes library on an external USB drive too and it works well.
I just wonder if there could be a corrupt database file or something in your external library which trips the AppleTV up, but doesn't bother iTunes itself or the iBook for streaming - while one would assume common code for iTunes sharing and AppleTV streaming it may be different. Odd that it lets you sync though.
AC

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Loading library, never streams, force quit iTunes

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