How to have the same iTunes library on a laptop and a desktop and be able to sync an iPod and iPhone to each one

I currently have iTunes 10 build 10.6.1.7 on my Win 7 home premium 64 bit laptop. I used this computer as my desktop for a few months until I rebuilt my old desktop. Now I want to put iTunes on the new desktop Win 7 64 bit computer. I have both an Piod Classic 80 gig and an iPhone 4 16 gig. Do to space limitations, I only sync a few of the items in the library with the iPhone. I sync the entire library with the iPod.
I want to be able to have the same library on both the laptop and desktop and sync both devices as descrbed above. Is this possible? If not possible, what is the reason for being able to have up to five machines auithorized for iTunes? I'm thinking that it h as something to do with the apple ID, but I'm not sure.
If I can't do this as I've described, what is the best way to accomplish something similar?
BTW, iTunes on the laptop says version 10.6.3 is available, but when I click download, nothing happens. How do I fix this?
I've always found iTunes to be vrey confusing.
Thanks for your advice.

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Hello henrik100,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Home Sharing in iTunes is designed to let you easily share your iTunes media libraries between up to five computers in your household.
For more information, take a look at:
iTunes: Setting up Home Sharing on your computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4620
Understanding Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819
Have a nice day,
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I have iTunes on my desktop PC, but now I want to use it on my laptop.
I've downloaded iTunes on the laptop, but when I log in to my account, none of my music appears.
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How to Copy and Move your Music Files from One Computer to Another
This is the conceptual framework with related and important links. Apply and adapt it to your specific situation and equipment resources.
The safest, quickest, and most optimal method to move your Library to a new computer is to actually clone the entire ‘iTunes’ folder (directory) structure, rather than just copying just the song files. By copying the entire ‘iTunes’ folder and all sub-folders, you capture not only the music files, but the all-important ‘iTunes Library.itl’ database file (usually located in the ‘iTunes’ folder), which contains all the data about your songs (Playlists, Ratings, Play Counts, Last Played, Date Added, etc). See: What are the iTunes Library files?
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NOTE: It is usually safer moving files between computers with the same version of iTunes!!
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2) Directly connect the two computers....
- 2a) Connect them through a Router &/or Network
- 2b) Directly connect using an Ethernet cable: Straight for using at least one Mac; or Crossover for PC/PC Instructions here.
- 2c) Connect them via a USB-to-USB Network Bridge. Example here. There are various types out there (use Google).
....Then copy the files from one computer to the other.
3) Use the iPod as a transfer device, as this extensive Apple link explains. It will be a bit easier if your iPod has a larger capacity than your music collection, otherwise you will need to perform multiple copy/move transfers. This well written process also works fine while using any other data transfer medium (ExHD, Flash Drive, DVD, CD, Zipp, Jazz, etc.).
4) Burn several DVDs (at 4.7GBs each) with your music data files and folder structure, and load them onto the new computer. Re-writable DVDs are more cost effective (if your DVD drive can manage these types).
5) Burn 6x more on CDs (at 700MB each) than in #4 above and load the files and folders on the new computer. Re-writable CDs are more cost effective (if your CD drive can manage these types).
6) Use a larger USB Flash drive (1GB - 4GB) to move the files and folders. Best if the flash drive is larger than your Library, otherwise you will need multiple copy/move transfers.
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Yes-
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From here copy the folder onto you external drive. Then, locate the itunes folder in the other user, and replace the iTunes folder on your external drive with the folder in the music folder. Do the same with the iPhoto library. Then, you should have the same iTunes library and iPhoto library on both. You could then delete the itunes folder off of the external drive and use it for time-machine if you wanted.
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