MP3 files crash wirelessly shared connection

I've been struggling with this for a while, and have just found a solution, but would appreciate an explanation if anyone can provide it.
I have a couple of Windows PCs running iTunes 7.1. The library is stored on a networked disk, but is "owned" by a PC on a wired connection to the router. I have no problems at all on this PC.
The second PC shares the same library, and is on a wireless connection. It will play some files, but others cause a "network stalled" message. This seems to freeze iTunes, and kills the network connection (I have to restart wireless to get any connectivity).
What I have found is that this problem only occurs with MP3 files (some, not all) ripped from CDs. By converting (not re-ripping) these files to AAC, the problem goes away. All the files were originally ripped using iTunes, so the problem is not caused by third party encoders.
I have no particular issue with converting all my MP3s to AACs (in fact I set th eprocess going last night), but I would be interested to know if anybody has seen this problem before, and to understand the root cause.
iTunes Windows XP

Thanks Niels, I was giving up hope! What Sonos does is scan the tags and build an index of audio files on multiple shares, then loads that index into the Zone Players (Sonos term) that accesses the file and plays them. I can have multiple wired or wireless audio file sources and Sonos can access them all (<= 16). It uses a mesh WiFi to synchronize the sound reproduction amongst many zone players, I have two and a third on the way. Zones can be joined into a unified single zone, that is all players running together, or broken off into sub groups or individual zones, each playing their own music.
So the index Sonos holds contains tags used for Audio file identification and then a URL which identifies the location, this can be on any one of up to sixteen shares, Mac, PC, Unix, Linux, SAN, etc. What happens with the Mac is that suddenly a tune that played previously, no longer does, and this is because iTunes moved the file, or changed the name, so the Sonos pointer becomes invalid.
It is looking more and more that iTunes cannot be used which is a shame because it runs on Macs and PCs, and we use both. I need iTunes to totally respect my naming conventions, NEVER move a file, permit ad-hoc directory refresh and allow a single audio file repository to be shared. By its cross-platform nature it would seem ideally suited for this, but I am beginning to get tired of trying to make it work.
Complicating the issue is that I am converting hundreds of LPs and Tapes for which I need to manually create directories. Last night for example I found I suddenly had FOUR Chopin directories! All named slightly differently. Won't do...
So any help will be greatly appreciated, I like iTunes but I do not think for much longer...
Lawrence

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