Home Sharing between iOS 4.3.1 and OSX 10.4.11

I can't get home sharing to work between my iPad1 running iOS 4.3.1 and my iMac
running OS X 10.4.11 and using iTunes 9.2. Home sharing is set up on my iMac and I can run Remote from my iPad. I've entered my Apple ID info in the iPod portion of Settings on the
iPad. But when I go to the iPod app on my iPad, when I tap on "Library" nothing
happens. I don't see my iMac iTunes library come up under "Shared Libraries".
As a matter of fact nothing at all happens or comes up when I tap on "Library".
Does Home Sharing work with iTunes 9? Do you need iTunes 10? And can you only
get iTunes 10 with OSX 10.5?

Wanted to add my .02 experience.
New iPad 2, iOs 4.3.1 (got it and did that yesterday).
One mac running 10.6.5, iTunes 10.2.1 - home share, and iPad2 Remote - works fine. Remote sees that home share immediately and it is working well.
One mac running 10.5.7, iTunes 10.2.2.... Remote cannot handle it. Not only do I not see the home share "share" on the iPad, but when I try do do the manual route of 'Add a Library', the errors are bizarre! It starts by taking a loooong time to spin and shows simply "Looking for" as the message on the iPad. Then it fails, and says "Not found". That's it! I don't think it is the router, as the 10.5 mac is on the same subnet though it is not wireless. I checked firewall stuff - it's not on. And since it works perfectly on the 10.6 mac, I know home sharing and the way I set things up works.
Stumped on this. Since I don't know if there are any logs to see on the iPad, I have no idea how to approach this one. But it clearly does not work with 10.5, at least for me.

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