Controling itunes on another mac

Hi there.
I really want to be able to control itunes on my main mac from my iBook. I have wireless networking and so far have tried:
AirControl Which is really really bad.
iHam on iRye. Nice interface, totally chokes on large libraries, I gave up waiting for it after 10 minutes.
SlimServer (Actually for the squeezebox devices) This is freeware which apparently can control itunes, I only seemed to get as far as getting the software to start playing, but I want it to stream out the main macs audio however its streaming it wirelessly into the ether.
netTunes. Probably the best of the lot, seems to do little more than show the actual itunes window on my main mac on my iBook, however the quality is appalling, you can barely read the window, plus they want what I think is far to much money.
I feel confident that one day apple will integrate this in, surely they have too, whats the point of a airpot thingy for streaming tunes if you have to run down to the basement to change tracks lol?
However is there anything I have missed, anything else I can try? The best overall picture I have seen is itunes catalog in terms of the wonderful web pages it creates, but I don't see a way to get it to control my other mac.
I have been playing with this for a long time and would love a solution?
Cheers

Gary--
I have no understanding of Apache, could you offer any tips?
Sure. The first thing to do is to open up your System Preferences and go to the Sharing Pane. You'll see a choice there for "Personal Web Sharing". Activate it. It should take a couple of seconds to start up, then you'll see text down below that gives you the URLs for sites on your computer. Note the one without your user name on the end. You'll use that later. If Apache doesn't start, look at your Console application at the log "/var/log/httpd/error_log". If you can't figure out how to fix the error, post back here with the error.
Copy the acgi dispatcher application to a convenient place on your hard drive. I put mine in the Applications folder. Go ahead and start the application. The first time you run it, you'll be prompted to install some stuff. Just accept the defaults.
In the acgi dispatcher package, there's an AppleScript called 'itunes.acgi'. Copy that to the "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables" folder. There should also be a Unix Executable File called "nph-acgihelper" in there. There might be a couple of other files in there, too. You can safely ignore them.
You should be able to use a web browser to control iTunes. Remember the URL you made a note of above? Type it into your browser and add "cgi-bin/itunes.acgi" to the end. So it should look like: "http://remotemachine/cgi-bin/itunes.acgi".
acgi dispatcher should launch the AppleScript and that should, in turn, launch iTunes if it's not already running. Once the AppleScript and iTunes are running, browser control should be much quicker. I just leave acgi dispatcher, iTunes and the itunes.acgi AppleScript running all the time.
Good luck, and post back with any questions you might run across.
best,
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