Home Sharing with iTunes 9 and Vista

I just downloaded and installed iTunes 9 on both of my Vista boxes. I am trying to use the Home Sharing feature. I clicked on Advanced> Turn On Home Sharing. I enter my Apple account info and click Create Home Share. A box pops up that says Home Sharing could not be activated because this computer is not authorized for the account "myusername". Please authorize this computer and try again.
So, I clicked on Store> Deauthorize computer.
Then, I clicked on Store> Authorize computer.
It gave me a pop up that says something like you have authorized two of your 5 available computers.
I tried turning on Home Sharing again and still got the same error that this computer is not authorized.
Then, I tried going to Store> Sign Out
Then Store> Sign In and doing the deauthroize/authorize process again.. still same results.
So, lastly, I tried going to Store> View My Account and deauthorizing ALL computers... so that reset my authorizations.
Then I signed out of the store, signed back in, authorized both machines... still I get the error on both that the computer is not authorized so it cannot turn on Home Sharing.
Any suggestions?

in order for home sharing to work
(a) iTunes on all machines must be authorized for the same iTunes store account
(b) all machines must be on the same network
(c) all machines must have access to the internet.
this read may be useful: _*Troubleshooting Home Sharing*_.
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