Slow display of shared playlists?

I stream Music and TV show playlists from my Mac to the Apple TV (connected via 802.11n, the Mac is GigE). I'm also syncing movies from another Mac.
When I go view the shared playlists initially, the Apple TV says "no playlists." After a few minutes, it displays the shows/episodes/playlists. This is true for both the music library (which is very large, > 250GB) and the TV shows (small, maybe 40 episodes).
Does anyone else see this problem? It doesn't seem to be size-related, because it happens on small and large lists.
Rebooting doesn't help...and diagnostics shows that everything is OK.
Any ideas?

Not sure I fully understand your problem, but with secondary (streaming only) libraries the tv needs to load them before it can use them unlike the synced library which is written to the tv during the sync process and is available at all times. Each time you switch libraries to a secondary library that library needs to load over your network.
The size does matter although maybe not as you might imagine, the library file is actually a small database file, it's not the content itself, although essentially it's a long list of your content. A library file with 100 movies occupying say 100GB will be considerably smaller than a library with 1000 tunes occupying say 3 GB.

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Revision: 3149
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-09-08 16:58:35 -0700 (Mon, 08 Sep 2008)
Log Message:
Fix bugs introduced by the display object sharing optimization. This checkin should fix ordering problems when dynamically adding/removing graphic elements, and ordering problems when changing graphic element properties that require a display object (rotation, alpha, filters, etc).
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