ITunes 10.5.2.11 Home Sharing, 2 issues....

First off, The Facts:
I am trying to transfer songs between 2 PC laptops, both updated with the latest iTunes version 10.5.2.11.
Both laptops have Home Sharing enabled, both are logged in to the same iTunes account, on the same wireless network, and both are authorized to access that ONE iTunes account.
Issue 1: I logged both computers onto my iTunes account, trying to move all the songs from my iTunes account on my old laptop (Windows Vista) onto the same iTunes account on my new laptop (Windows 7). The songs I have purchased on iTunes do show up on my new laptop, but I have about 400 songs that I imported onto my iTunes account from CD's, so I'm trying to get these songs transfered from the old computer to the new one. I have Home Sharing enabled, and on the new laptop, my full iTunes library from my old computer shows up as "Owner's Library" under the "Shared." tab on the left-hand side. I open "Owner's Library," and all the tracks do show up, I have "Show: Items NOT in my Library" selected, and all songs are check-marked. When I click "Import," however, it only imports ONE SONG at a time. I must click on each song and import it individualy. There HAS to be a way to simply import ALL of them at the same time, since they are all selected with check-marks.
Issue 2: On the iTunes on my new computer, I created "smart playlists" for each artist I have music for, and each is set up to automatically place songs from that artist into that playlist. When I do import songs from my old computer (which were imported onto my iTunes account from CD's I already owned), they already have the track, album and artist info, but they get loaded into the default "Recently Added" playlist, rather than going into the smart playlists I created for them to go into. How can I force the songs I'm transferring from my old laptop to automatically go into my pre-made smart playlists right when I import them onto my new laptop, via the "Home Sharing" feature?

I had the same problem, but with an earlier version of iTunes, but when I upgraded it the problem solved automatically

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