Music drops for a few seconds

I posted this in iTunes forum but also thought be good to post here. With iTunes 6.0.5 I don't have this problem. But with iTunes 7.0.2 I do. When using my my airport express to play music using 7.0.2 the music will drop for about 3 seconds then resume. This happens enough to really notice. On my iMac G3 CRT which still has 6.0.5 on it, no problem. Continous stream of music no drop. All my airport express have been updated to 6.3. This happens with both my G5 iMac and my G4 iBook which have 7.0.2. I am to the point of dumping 7.0.2 and reinstalling 6.0.5.
Does anyone have any suggestions.
As always thank you for any any insight.
John

Hi John,
Can you use a Ethernet Cable and plug it into one of your computers and the Airport Express and test with iTunes 7 and see if it still drops out?
Is the Streaming Buffer Rate the same between iTunes 6 and 7.
iTunes>Preferences>Advance Tab>General Tab>Streaming Buffer Size> Set it to higher rate>Click Ok.
Are you running OSX 10.4.8 on your computers?
let us know what happens...
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