Can't import songs from Home Share library

Hello,
According to "Tunes Mac 9.0 Help - Sharing your iTunes library across computers," I should be able...
"- To import items from another computer, select the computer (below Shared), and drag items from its library to yours.
- To automatically import iTunes Store items that are downloaded to a computer you’re Home Sharing with, select “Automatically import new purchases from [Computer Name].”
However, despite the fact that I performed all the right steps, and both computers see each other shared libraries, I can not drag items from one library to another, nor can I find where to select "Automatically import new purchases..."
The second computer is a Windows 7, hopefully this is not the problem.
Help! Massive searches did not bring more info.
Thanks,
-Dima

I just noticed this problem for the first time today. I've never had trouble dragging and dropping items from my home shared libraries. Today - no way. For context, when I first accessed the shared library (on my PC) today from my Mac, there was the usual, togglable (entire library or just those not already on the importing computer) "import library" button at the bottom of the pane. But after I toggled to "not on my computer" (or whatever the option is called) and dragged a few new ones to the my Mac, I got a message saying "no can do, home sharing needs to be activated." This apparently was a casualty of a hard drive restoration yesterday, so I reactivated home sharing, and that's when the current problem reared its ugly head, both on my Mac and on my PC.

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