Cant share music

I have both of my computers "home share" turned on and I can see both of my computer's playlists...but for some reason I am unable to move new purchases from my desktop to my laptop.
All I really want to do is get a new song that I bought on my desktop over in my laptop's playlist so I can sync it to my effin ipod so I can actually play the song that I paid for. Why does itunes make this so terribly difficult????
I couldn't even seem to get it to import from my computer's shared folder. WHY???
The last time I bought a song there was a little button that let me import all the songs from my desktop that weren't in my laptop's playlist. I guess that was just too easy.

The only thing that I can guess is that Apple is turning in to Microsoft and just doesn't care anymore. There are pages and pages and pages of issues with Home Share but no solution. It works for some, it works sometimes for others, and not at all for many. I have been able to get it to work one way (library doesn't show on both computers) but even then not all the time. And still no fix.

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