TV and Airport EXPRESS stop streaming after update

I have read all of the posts regarding the Airport Extreme update being the culprit of the slow streaming with the Apple TV, but I have an Airport Express (2 actually) that suddenly stopped streaming after the last batch of updates (iTunes 8 etc.).
Everything has been working flawlessly - I have all my movies and TV shows on an old Mac that streams to my Apple TV via 2 Airport Express base stations. I have one AE station "hosting" my internet connection, and then the other acting as a WDS remote. Suddenly after the last updates I have no streaming. I have re-set everything, and re-connected my media server to my Apple TV and no luck. My AE's are at the latest firmware 6.3, and Apple TV, iTunes and even OS is all up to date.
If anyone has any ideas how to fix this I would really appreciate it - it's driving me crazy.
Thanks in advance.

Am in the same boat as it where, so will be happy to hear a solution!

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Message was edited by: TimLindner

I wanted to post a follow-up. I solved my own issue after starting to rule out every possible cause.
I have a Western Digital networked hard drive (NAS) which houses all of my MP3's. I knew accessing this drive was pretty slow but I've had my MP3's on it and iTunes' library is all coming off this drive. It has worked fine on my computer for years. However, it appears that the lag doesn't play nice with AirTunes.
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