Home Sharing and Show Items not in my Library

I was very excited to finally be able easily sync up the iTunes libraries on my new home mini and my laptop, I was even more excited by the "Items not in my Library" option... but I seem to be having a issue it, that is probably a bug, and I'm wondering if others are seeing it too in 9.0.2:
I transferred over an album no problem, then I went to transfer a setlist of live tracks by the same artist. Because it's live, many of the song names are the same. I had the *Show Items not in my Library* option selected and it hid (and thus didn't transfer) some of the tracks. I later realized that it had hidden the tracks that had the same name as the original album, even though they are quite different.
I hope others experience this same issue and Apple will release an update fixing it. This issue will make it impossible to realiably synchronize libraries as they change.
BTW - I've also noticed if you choose *Show: All items* and import a file that is a real duplicate it will copy it over and append a "1" creating a duplicate as opposed to replacing or updating the file.
Thanks,
=Blair

The import button remains greyed out and therefore unavailable.
Quickly doublechecking ... has the MacBook gone to sleep? If it's awake, does the Import button become active for you?

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