Multiple Speakers don't work

Hi all,
I can select the Airport Express "Speaker" in iTunes, or the local Computer as an ouput - both work. But when I try to select Multiple Speakers to send the audio to both, it displays this error:
"An error occurred while connecting to the remote speaker "Bathroom". An unkown error occurred. (-3256)"
Can anyone suggest a solution?
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Ok, found another thread that addressed this issue. problem solved:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303157

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