Clear iPad Cache of Shared Library

Does anyone know how to clear the cache of iTunes Home Sharing on the iPad? I'm making changes to the sorting of my shared TV Shows and I cannot get the ipad to show my changes. The only way I can figure out is if I restore the device and then connect to home sharing. I've tried restarting the device, the pc, clearing cache content from itunes folder... No luck. Any ideas? Shouldn't iTunes have a clear cache button that tells the devices to re-download all the info about the files?

I just got off a 40min chat with Apple support and they fixed it. So try the following if you are having the same issues:
1. Close down the Videos app in your ipad
2. go to ipad Settings / Videos, select Home Sharing email and signout
3. go to shared library (mine was on my mac) and close down itunes completely then reopen
4. go to ipad Settings / Videos and sign into Home Sharing
After I did this and reopened the Video app the shared libraries where all in order.

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You have all your movies onto one big drive
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I realize the iTunes doesn't like:
Movie that doesn't show the correct icon preview in Finder
Invalid movie formats - I'll explain later
Big thumbnails
Read all 3 steps and don't forget the last paragraph at the end.
Movies that doesn't show the correct icon preview in Finder
Ultimately, I think that was the main problem of all my 3 steps
In Finder, enable the Icon Preview:
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VALID:
INVALID:
But if you see any of these icons, the Videos app on the iPad might stumble a bit when loading the library
or
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by using Identify.app - see (note1)
or by looking on the web for the best artwork (i.e. flickfacts.com), saving it locally, then drag/drop on your movie in iTunes (Get Info|Artwork)
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Invalid movie formats
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Either delete the movie altogether and rip it again
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Opened up Microsoft Paint and clicked on "File" and "Open" and found it to get it on the screen to resize it
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