Multiple Speakers with Airport Express

Since the release of iTunes sometime back in feb/mar, I'm so happy to be able to stream music through multiple speakers in different rooms in my house. However, since I installed the latest iTunesSetup dated 2006-06-28 release v6.05, I am unable to play to more than 1 set of speakers, sometimes even only limited to "My Computer". The error message was something like 'could not access the speaker'.
I've also doublechecked latest firmware and there was none released after http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airportexpressfirmwareupdate63forwindows. html
I don't see anyone here with similar problems since there seems to be none posted after Jun 28 on this issue.
Can any expert help?

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303157
# Click the Firewall tab.
# Click the Advanced button.
# Make sure that the option to "Block UDP Traffic" is not selected.
Thks so much for the reply! My PCs are behind the router and the firewall is not on in this case. I do use the zonealarm normally for other PCs.
As far as I know, on XPProSP2 we can unblock UDP traffic and normally need to specify which ports though, not universal unblock.
Any other clues?

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