How to manage my media

Hi all
I need some advice please on how to manage my media between my original laptop which has all my current media on, and my new mac mini.
Some background....I got the mac mini mainly to use with my LCD TV and front row listening at home and viewing pics on a big screen.
So starting with music, im confused as to the best approach to take. I have an iPod and want to maintain my play counts and ratings as these drive my playlists. If i transfer my current metadata to the mac mini but continue synching to the laptop, then immediately the databases start to diverge. Im not worried about play counts on the mac mini, but changes to my ratings on my ipod (my method of rating) will not flow through to the mac mini. I dont want to synch to the mini as my wife will totally wreck my play counts, as she plays the same music over and over again!! However, I would like updated ratings to be on both systems. Im not sure there is a solution to this, but any ideas would be welcomed!
With pictures I want to maintain editing on my laptop as I have Elements 3.0 and dont fancy editing on my TV anyway. But of course I want to view my pictures through my mac mini on our tv!
I am right in that maybe my best option would be to invest in a external network hard drive for my media to live on and have both computers access it that way? Im on a 54mbs wireless laptop, would an external hard drive be fast enough over that? plus its more expense I dont really want to spend!
Apologies for the length, but I dont want to get this wrong and I know it will be harder to change if I start off on the wrong foot!
Thanks
Jared

Just to hit one topic of your post...this utility might be a solution for you...
http://www.findleydesigns.com/ipodaccess/index.html
It painlessly merged my older MS Windows nano's songs with my current Mac iPod's library.

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