Photos menu dissapears from Apple TV

Photos menu dissapears from Apple TV as soon as I upload my library from my computer (the one that is synching with ATV) If I go to sources and I select ATV instead of my library the photos menu is back. In either case the photos are there as I can see them in the screen saver.
Everything was working well (including photos) for several weeks until today.
I have reset the ATV, reset my iTunes with no luck.
What should I do? Please help.
Thanks

Hi,
The photos menu is only available when you select the ATV as your source. and not when you select a streamed library.
This is because photos can only be synced and not streamed to the ATV.
Therefore, there is no Photo menu in a streamed source library.
See the fourth box on Photo syncing here - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305270
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