Major Problems connecting ATV to iTunes

I am having major problems in connecting to my iTunes on my PC. The ATV is not showing up in the devices list at all. It started after I reinstalled windows and reinstalled all the software after having major problems with the internet connection. The ATV is connected to the router with an ethernet cable and I can see it on the router home page. I have also done a full factory restore several times. I can access youtube on the ATV so the connection to the router is good. I can connect to the ATV from my laptop so I can assume the ATV is ok. I have tried everything in the the forum that has been advised and I have tried everything in the apple support also and as some one mentioned in other posts I have a very hot paper weight that I can watch crap youtube videos on!!!!
Any help will be truely appreciated.

Not necessarily -- it can still show up in the list but not be properly assigned a network ID (and not available to join the network) if there aren't enough clients available -- are you sure you have it set to at least 50? And you need to make sure you've cloned the Mac address as well if you have a cable modem. It won't hurt to check this. And make sure you try pinging the net ID of the ATV just to make sure it is responding (if not then the ATV unit itself is probably defective).
Let's assume for a moment that both of these settings are fine and it does ping. At that point it almost surely is a permissions thing -- turn off security at the router if wireless (sorry -- this old man just got up and I can't remember if you are wired or not), turn off any firewall and if you have Norton turn it off as well (all of this just for the moment). Stop the iTunes service, reboot the ATV, and then bring up iTunes (which will start up the iTunes service).
I need to shower and then I'm off to the courts (and perhaps I will have awakened and realized something else).

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I have 2 Airport Extreme basestations covering a large flat connected by Ethernet extending a single network. I did try to extend the network wirelessly, but this was plagued with problems where the network would work for 10 mins, then drop out as I think the basestations are slightly too far apart.
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