Need to restart my system to get Home sharing from Windows working

On the second start-up of iTunes on Windows, it cannot see my two AirPlay devices on my network and other devices on the network cannot see the shared library. All of this works the first time I start Windows after system start-up. If I reboot the machine, things start working again.
This is very inconvenient. Has anyone else experienced the same problems? and found a solution?
Windows 7 64-bit with iTunes 10.5 64-bit. AirPort Time Capsule router. All devices are connected with Ethernet. ESET Antivirus and Windows firewall. I have tried temporarily disable both security products to troubleshoot the problem. No difference with the product disabled.

Hi, all - I will post this in both my discussions... I HAVE SOLVED MY ISSUE with Home Sharing dropping!!! I hope this helps someone else!
I said earlier i had two machines both Win7x64, both running iTunes x64 - only one worked without dropping the home sharing connection. I sat down and compared entries in both firewalls for both machines. It appears there were duplicate entries for Bonjour in the PC that WAS NOT working. Once I changed the firewall to match that of the other - IT WORKS.
Here are brief steps and my settings that are working for Win7x64. (I expect this could be a similar issue in Win7x86(32bit) and MacOS).
Click Start
In "Run" type: (no quotes) Firewall
Select Advanced Firewall
Select "Inbound Rules"
Select "Sort by Group" so there is no grouping (this will bring Bonjour and iTunes entry to the top, most likely
Match my settings which Ive included below so there are only 4 Bonjour entries and 1 iTunes.
Delete any duplicates for Bonjour (I had 4 set to Public and two set to Private) They should all be on your private network -
There should be only one each of a TCP and UDP entry for C:\Program Files (x86)\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe
AND
Only one each of a TCP and UDP entry for C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe

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