Anybody having problems with home sharing with iTunes 10.5, iOS 5 and the VZW iPhone 4?

I installed the updated itunes 10.5.  Updated my Verizon iPhone 4 to iOS 5.  So far so good with one exception.... I can't get home sharing to work properly.  I've enabled home sharing (via my Apple ID) on both iTunes and my iPhone.  I've disabled, reset and messed with my firewall to no end.  But even though home sharing appears enabled, I never get the option to access 'shared' as is supposed to be present when pressing the 'more' selection in the ipod app on the iPhone.  It's not there.  Also even though sharing is enabled in iTunes, I don't see home sharing in the tree on the left column in iTunes.  (It appears briefly when I enable home sharing, but disappears as soon as I acknowledge that I've enabled home sharing)  I'm running Windows 7 (32bit) with Norton Security Suite.  And my WIFI connection from my phone to my network is present.
Help?

Well after trying all of that a few times, I re-read an Apple document in regards to home sharing problems (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972).  Yep and in their document, did that, did that, did that... hmmm wait a second... I didn't do this and in fact this is the only thing I didn't do.... So I did it and voila`, it worked.
Anyway, I cycled the power on my Linksys E2000 wireless router.  That's it.  I didn't have to change any settings in the router.  Now every time the 'shared' selection is available on my iPhone and it is definitely a sweet feature!
I hope that this solves your problem as well (assuming you haven't already tried it!)
As for iCloud, I don't think the music in the cloud functionality is available yet.  I believe that's to arrive at some future (hopefully sooner than later!) date.  Not positive though.... it may already be available and I too don't quite know how to use it!

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