Home sharing on iTunes 9.0 question

I've tried searching for an answer to this and either no one has addressed it or I'm just blind. I know that two computers have to be authorized on a single iTunes account to enable home sharing and that you can copy music from the second computer (which has either been purchased from the iTunes store or ripped from CD) over to the first computer. My question though is what will happen to those copied songs, if the computer where they originated is DEAUTHORIZED? Will the songs no longer be playable?
I'm concerned about this because I've had to swap between hard drives (lap top and desk top) lately and I'm currently using a lap top as my sole computer which is where I keep all my music. I had to get a new hard drive once and also reformat the new one several months later. To transfer my music back and forth I just copied my music folder over to an external hard drive and back again once the new hard drive was ready. The result on my iTunes and music was that many songs were somehow duplicated, every other song wasn't able to be located, songs were lost, some songs that I though I deleted showed back up, etc. After hours and hours though I've fixed all the music and I am once again in harmony, for now. I will be switching back to a desk top (for good) in about a year and I'm afraid of repeating this nonsense again.
I was hoping that I could set up iTunes on the desktop (which will have nothing on it) and authorize it in iTunes, then activate home sharing, then copy the entire library over to the new desk top. This "should" copy all of my music that I REALLY want to the new desk top, and finally keeping all of my music nice and neet. But again, what will happen to the music on the new desk top if I deauthorize the original laptop?

From iTunes Menu Advanced select -> Turn Off Homesharing
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The Turn On Homesharing again - Use the same ID/PW that you use / have used for purchasing songs on every computer

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