ITunes Home Sharing misbehaves on one mac in my house

I moved into my wife's old 24" iMac and handed my 20" iMac down to my daughter who is away at school. I have Home Sharing turned on on this Mac and my wife's new 27" iMac. My Apple TV can see her library, but not mine. The Remote App on my iPod touch can see the Apple TV and my Wife's iMac, but not mine. My Mac can see my Wife's iTunes library and her Mac can see my library. Both of the Macs and my iPod all see the Apple TV as an output (Airplay).
I am using the same account everywhere.
I have thrown out all of my iTune prefs, I have reinstalled iTunes. I have even wasted a day reformatting, reinstalling OS X and restoring from Time Machine.
I don't know what else to try.

Colour me flabbergasted! I just finished posting my question and looked down at my iPod to see my Mac Library staring me in the face. I went downstairs and checked the Apple TV and, sure enough, there it was also.
What I had just done was to turn Home Sharing off everywhere and then turn it back on everywhere. If that's all it takes, I cant believe I went through so much angst trying to make it work.

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