My Apple TV Won't Play Genius Mixes

When I pull up the Genius Mixes I see the nine squares of four album covers and the various "genres" of the mixes, but when I hit play the message "Apple TV Cannot Play The Current Song". This happens for all of the mixes. I have tried updating Genius and syncing the Apple TV again but that doesn't work. I have started and restarted iTunes and Apple TV to no avail. All of my music lives on my Apple TV. Can anyone help?
I am running the latest version of Apple TV (3.0.1) and iTunes (9.0.2 (25)).

Same issue here. I can see them, just can't play them. I JUST bought my AppleTV yesterday and much to my chagrin everything except the Genius mixes plays fine. I had a perfectly functioning WDTVLive with a 320GB usb drive sitting in the same spot only hours before setting up the AppleTV. All I really had to do with that one was take all the music and dump it into one folder to fix what I didn't like about it, but ever the stickler for organization of my media files... Makes me want to go change my mind about the AppleTV and go back to BB and get back the WDTVLive I returned.

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