Accessing and Sharing Common iTunes Library over LAN

I would like to implement the following: store all of my music on a home server (Windows server for Crestron Compatibility) with iTunes and access it from Mac clients around the house. I would like to buy songs and store them on the server, but so that they are immediately available to very Mac client, so that, if I buy the song from the iMac in the master bedroom, the song gets to the iTunes library on the Windows server and I can see it on the Powerbook iTunes in the kitchen. Is it possible?
I tried playing around with my two iMacs, and it didn't work so well. As of now, I have the master iTunes library on the new Intel iMac. I went to my G4 iMac and, under the iTunes advanced preference pane I mapped the G4 library to the Intel iMac's iTunes folder. I then bought a song from the G4, and the song showed up in the G4's library, but not under the G4's iTunes folder. Rather, it was correctly stored onto the Intel iMac's iTunes folder. Problem was, it didn't show up in the Intel iMac's library. I had to manually import the song into iTunes to make it show up. So, my guess is that it would be invisible even to the powerbook in the kitchen.
Do you guys think there is a simple way to map the clients' iTunes library to a common location and make it immediately visible to every client? I think it's something more and more people will want to implement in the near future...
20" iMac Core Duo   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   1GB ram, 256MB vram, 250GB HD

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