How to keep two libraries synchronized ?

I recently bought a laptop which I am going to use beside my regular PC. I installed iTunes on both PC's, but here comes the problem: those are not the same libraries. I of course could copy them once and it will look like they are the same, but in fact they aren't because when playing a song on my PC, the play count on my laptop won't be updated. So I want to keep both my libraries to be exactly the same (play count, date added, rating, everything). What's the best way to accomplish this ? I found SyncoTunes, but that doesn't update all of the data.
And then an even more impossible-to-solve problem: my iPod touch is now synchronized to my PC, but I'd like to be able to synchronize it with both my libraries (which should be the same).... Don't think that's possible though.
I know both of these problems are solved when using an external hard disk which I could plugin in both computers, but for now that's not an option. Is there any other way...?

I think you kind of covered all the possible, not so elegant but could work, solutions.
Sorry,
Patrick

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