Home Sharing only moved a few songs across

Hi,
I have just purchased a new laptop, I have turned home sharing on and I can see about 257/3000 songs have moved across.
Why have only a few songs moved across? Will it only move across purchased ITunes songs?
thanks
Rachel

I'm trying to do the same thing - I have a G5 iMac that I want to use as a Media Center. I want it to connect to both my daughter's Macbook (and her iTunes account) and my Intel iMac (and my iTunes account). It looks like you can only Home Share one iTunes account.

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