2 Macs, 1 Library (NAS?

I don't know jack about this stuff... I just googled NAS before posting here. I just know that I have 2 mac laptops using iTunes and a 360 that i watch videos wirelessly off my MBP with, and i want one thing hosting all the music and movies.
I have two mac laptops that I want to share one iTunes library, and if that library and all its music were on an external, maybe a NAS (i just read about them today) then that would be best. I also want the 'host', whether it is one of the mac laptops or the NAS to serve video to my ethernet-cable-connected-to-router 360.
Equipment I have now: Macbook, Macbook Pro, old G3 iMac, Airport Express 802.11g, Xbox 360, Linksys wrt54g router.
Please recommend me a a setup. I hook the Express to the stereo for Airtunes.
Recommendations for a NAS device that I can plug some USB drives into that isn't a piece of junk would be nice as well. Something like this maybe: Linksys Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives NSLU2
Or after all that should I just keep all music on one and play off of it using iTunes built in sharing?

I can confirm this behavior. I use NFS and automount to share large libraries (audio/video/photo) to my OSX computer, which works very well. ~/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary is simply a symlink to an automounted NFS directory containing the Aperture Library.aplibrary directory.
Aperture 3.0 -> 3.1.1, this setup has worked well for me. I have never had issues accessing, loading, modifying or otherwise altering the library. I have never had a corrupted library, or any other observed issues from operating in this fashion.
Starting in 3.1.2 when I attempt to start Aperture, I get the following error message before the application quits:
Aperture cannot access this library
To use this library, make sure its file permissions are set correctly.
Another thing work noting is that iphoto11 can still see and use the NFS mounted aperture library wihtout issue.
I for one would really enjoy seeing Aperture support network mounted photo libraries again. Until then, back to Aperture 3.1.1 for me. bummer.

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