Two  ATV2 devices and constant iTunes HomeSharing issues

Hi,
When I had just my one Apple TV, everything was just fine.
Just bought another Apple TV and now, I have to close iTunes and restart it each time I want to connect to it.
It seems to go like this...
Connect from my first AppleTV... everything ok.
If I try to connect from the second AppleTV, it doesn't see iTunes until it is closed and restarted.
Go back to the first AppleTV - it loses it's connection again.
They are only losing connection to iTunes - Netflix, etc. still work.
Sometimes it will lose connection to iTunes in the middle of a movie as well!
As I said, everything was just fine until the second ATV was introduced to the network.
... I certainly won't be getting a third with these issues occurring.
Any ideas? I've rebooted the PC of course, but that didn't help.
Thx.

Try going under Settings and making sure each Apple TV has a different name. Your network is probably getting confused if you have more than one with the same name.

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