Best networked iTunes configuration?

Hi,
My family shares a 60 GB music and video library among three computers on a gigabit network. Each runs iTunes and has their own iPod. The music is mostly MP3s from a converted CD library, but we each have some DRM content from iTunes. Each computer is authorized for the other's account. I control new CD content into the library by ripping it on my computer.
What are your opinions on the best configuration to manage this with as few headaches as possible? The iTunes on computers 2 and 3 don't know when I've added, removed, or retagged files in the library, so they regularly fall out of sync. (I purposely have "let iTunes manage my library" only on my computer so there won't be competing software managers.)
I occasionally perform an "add folder to library" of the music folder (a mapped drive on all systems via a logon script) to re-scan the entire library, but there has to be a better way. Musicmatch Jukebox had a feature called WatchFolders that kept an eye on a folder and updated its library files accordingly.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
Sean

If you followed my suggestion, then yes, ideally the iTunes 'server' would be a desktop machine (even a Mac Mini), and the clients could be laptops.
However you can use a Linksys NSLU2 NAS device running 'Twonky' and it will then look like an iTunes server to your laptops.
See http://howtotwonky.pbwiki.com/
and http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Applications/TwonkyVision
However while the above will serve music from a NAS to multiple iTunes clients, it will not support using an Apple TV as a client. For that you have to use a real iTunes server.
So the 'best' iTunes configuration is still to use an old computer as an iTunes server.

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