"Not enough free space" and "cannot play the current song"

I have a reasonably large (about 80gb) music store, consisting of mostly AAC's ripped from my CD collection but also a lot of iTunes store music and a sprinkling of MP3s, podcasts and iPhoto pictures, about 7,000 items in all.
For some reason the Apple TV appears to sync nicely but then I have the following problems:
1. Whenever I select a song I get the message: "Apple TV cannot play the current song"
2. There is an exclamation mark next to Apple TV in iTunes stating that some of the tracks couldn't get copied across as there wasn't enough room
3. Only one picture from iPhoto can be seen when you do the slideshow.
The Apple TV is connected to my network directly into the back of the new Apple Airport Extreme (802.1n) base station by ethernet and can play trailers beautifully. The head unit is a Mac Mini running 10.4.9 and 7.1.1 with plenty of free disk space and 2gb of RAM.
I've tried:
- Reset to factory settings
- Restart the Mac Mini running iTunes
- Power off everything and start from scratch
- Selecting a sub-set of stuff to copy across
Before I reset, iTunes reported about 4GB used out of 32GB but now it shows 32.64GB free out of 32.83GB.
So frustrating.... feels like a genuine bug. Will continue with my methodical trial and error but would love some pointers from anyone who has seen anything similar. Searching on these forums showed up nothing.
Thanks in advance
M.
MacMini & Apple TV   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

Hmm... looks like an ID-10T error... source drive containing the music files had failed, a quick repair and things are looking a lot better.
If this is the cause iTunes was very confusing, it appears to cache each set of error messages every time a sync fails, i.e. if it had tried to sync 3 times then you had to see all the error messages 3 times, plus the messages were things like 'not enough space' instead of 'reconnect the drive you idiot'.
Syncing is taking a lot longer right now, suggesting the files are actually getting copied. I thought it was quick....
Will confirm all is well shortly.

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