Streaming music for multiple rooms of a house

Hi all,
I have an iBook G3. My question is, I want to stream music from my iBook to multiple rooms without having a lot of latency. The Airport Express (unless I'm wrong) can only stream one room at a time (I need more than one to be able to stream). I want to get the whole house wired for having Christmas music play throughout the house. If you have any products let me know. Thanks!
iBook G3 500 MHz, 576 MB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.3) Beige G3 266 MHz, 40 GB IBM Hard Drive, External SuperDrive

Hi Joshua,
there are two commercial solutions that do want you want ('though they'll cost you ) the Squeezebox and Sonos Digital Music Systems.
-Petra

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