Ipad 3 home sharing issues

I have been spending the last few hours trying to set up home sharing on the ipad3.
After I thought it was successful, to my dismay, I found that the music, while all showing up, will only show up under the 'playlists' tab and the 'songs' tab. both my artist, albums, and genres tabs are copletely empty.
As far as the streaming goes, the music streams fine, I just cannot browse by artist and that is terribly frustrating.
Do we know any solutions for this? And I would prefer not to uninstall/reinstall itunes as i just updated the year/ retagged genre on 40 something gigs.
and yes, I have the most current itunes and ipad builds

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Wanted to share my experience with Home Sharing issues after upgrading to iTunes 10.6. These forums a rampant with reports of the issue, so I'll defer to the search field above if you don't know what I am talking about. In short: iTunes 10.6 seems to have busted Home Sharing.
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Thanks for posting this.
I've been searching for an option of how to approach this problem.
I picked up the new AppleTV when it was released, but it has made iTunes fairly useless from a Home Sharing standpoint.
I also observed the massive number of TCP connections being opened against iTunes, but never closed.
As expected, I could manually kill a few of these connections, and then could connect again, even without closing iTunes.
I performed most of my testing with Windows 7, but while troubleshooting I had the same issue with iTunes on an old Mac Mini I had sitting around.
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Oct 12 10:34:30 iMac.local powerd[28] <Notice>: Clients requested wake events: [proc=mDNSResponder request=Maintenance inDelta=7198]
Oct 12 10:34:30 iMac.local powerd[28] <Notice>: PM scheduled RTC wake event: MaintenanceImmediate inDelta=7198.04
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Oct 12 10:39:30 iMac.local powerd[28] <Notice>: PID 28(powerd) Created InternalPreventSleep "Network wake delay proxy assertion" 00:00:00 id:0xe00002341 [System: DeclUser SRPrevSleep kCPU kDisp]
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