Strange limitations streaming photos

Hi gang,
The new Apple TV has some serious limitations compared to the previous version when streaming photos. I used to have iTunes sync up photo albums to the Apple TV, and could pack in as many photos as the hard drive could handle. I understand that the new Apple TV streams in the photos, which is fine, except that it seems to have limits on the streaming functionality.
My iPhoto collection has over 40,000 photos. I have a Smart Album called "Best of the last 12 months". It has 1399 photos, and all appear on the Apple TV when selected. I have a Smart Album called "5 star photos", which has photos dating back many years. In iPhoto there are 1,326 photos, however, the Apple TV reports only 202. The older the photo, the less likely it is to appear on the Apple TV.
I tried to get around this by uploading all of my 5 star photos to Mobile Me, but there is a cap of 500 photos per album for Mobile Me.
Grrrrrr.
Is there not a way to get the Apple TV to stream photos more reliably than this?
Cheers!

i also use iPhoto.
what i did was, in itunes. under the advanced tab at the top of the screen. it has an option to choose photos to share.
in the popup box i picked selected albums and events and kept the total under 20k, clicked apply.
by no means a permeant fix as clearly not all of my photos are going to apple tv, but i don't have the gaps.
hope this helps

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