Home sharing only sharing SOME apps

Hi all,
I recently started using Home Sharing to share libraries across three machines in our home network, and just noticed that not all of the apps can be shared.
First off, this is not a "how do I enable home sharing" post! I got Home Sharing up and running successfully across all three machines in the house (or so I thought). All three are running iTunes 9.2 and OS 10.6.4, and all are logged into Home Sharing using the same account info.
Machine A currently has 45 iPhone apps in its library. Home Sharing is setup with machine B's account info, but B is authorized to use A's music and apps. When I look at A's library from B, I only see a list of 39 apps available. (That's with "show all items" selected, not just "show items not in my library".) So why the missing 6? I'm unable to see any pattern to the six that don't appear. (It's always the same six, I just don't see anything in common across the set of six.)
I tried turning off Home Sharing and quitting iTunes across all machines. I restarted iTunes and this time set up Home Sharing using A's account across all machines. From A, when I try to drag one of the 6 "missing" apps to B's library (Vector Tanks, for example), it won't let me -- the red "1" icon indicating that I'm dragging one item doesn't find a "home" in B's library.
I'd be grateful for suggestions!
Thanks,
Brad

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Anyway, I created a new iTunes library and gradually added a few CDs to see what happened in the .xml file. My reason? Well, like you, my iPod Touch does not show up all the artists. It drops some. Out of four artists I can see 3. It is weird. I started off with the blank library and added a CD of Berlioz. The iPod Touch showed up Berlioz as the artist (I should add that I use the Artist data field for composer since Apple, in their infinite wisdom, decreed one could not search on composer. So one entry in the library and it was visible on the iPod.
Import a second CD . Berlioz disappears and the new composer is visible. In fact, this CD has three composers on it. All three are visible. Import a third CD - again Berlioz - and Berlioz still does not appear. The music is there in the Album listing but not in the artist.
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