Home sharing missing content and messes thing up

I use iTunes Home Sharing on my network. I have a Mac Mini that has my iTunes Library. Home Sharing is turned on with my Apple ID. When I want to stream a movie or tv show to my iPad, a lot of them are missing in the home sharing menu in the Video App. Even movies and tv shows I purchases in iTunes store. Also a lot of artwork is messed up (wrong picture with wrong movie).
So it is buggy....I aready tried turning home sharing off and on again, but that didn't help.
I have this on my iPad and iPhone. On my Apple TV, however, all content is ordered as it should be. There it works perfect.
Any thoughts?

Have you tried quitting iTunes, restarting the Mac and then restart the iPad? This may reset everything.
Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.
Reboot the Mac and launch iTunes again.

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Hi clissmann,
It sounds like you simply wish to have your purchases on both your Mac and your PC. You can accomplish this by accessing your past purchases using the information in the following article:
Download past purchases - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht2519
Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
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Hello all
Firstly, thank you to those that are reading this with a view to helping, and to those that will, hopefully, reply.
I am looking at getting my iTunes library shared in my home. My current set up is simple: 2011 MBP, iPhones, iPad, all music on the MBP and all devices using the same iTunes account (although, there are different iCloud accounts on the devices, but I assume this is not a problem). All devices up-to-date. Approx 80GB of ripped/iTunes purchased music. The first thing I want to acheive is my iPhone having access to my music library so I can plug the phone into a dock and play what I want.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
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It appears to be all or nothing ? Sureley Apple would provide more granular control of what is home shared?

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And given the above out only option would be for me to import the songs i want into my library using the source folder as the same that he stores his music in on the hard-drive?

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