ITunes Home Sharing not showing up on my iPhone 4

I have enable Home Sharing on iTunes on my Mac, I have also enabled it on my iPhone settings by entering my apple id and password -- However, when I go into the ipod on the iphone, in the "more" section, it doesn't show "shared". I've sync my phone over and over as well as reset it and still nada.
Could you please tell me if I'm doing something wrong?

On my Verizon iPhone the "more" section, it doesn't show "shared". I've rebooted, system update for iTunes, Snow Leopard on MacBook Pro 2008
I can see Home Sharing in my iTunes list: while on the MBP I can see my iMac i5 27"... but no Home Sharing on iPhone/iPod/more...
I manually sync my music on my iPhone from my MacBook Pro, which does not have my new music on it. But all I can do to get the new songs onto the iPhone is to use Home Sharing to make DUPLICATES on the Macbook Pro of the songs that are on the iMac. I dont' want dupes. I don't want all my songs on my Laptop. I want all my songs on my iMac which has a huge new empty harddrive.
I wouldn't mind if it is Apple working through some glitches and it will work in a few days/weeks, especially if Apple posted some message. I hate wasting time thinking I'm troubleshooting wrong, only to give up hours later, since I see others also have this problem.
Etana

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Having had a lot of trouble with syncing and sharing my itunes libraries from two PC's to an iphone 4 and 4S via "itunes home sharing", I decided to try and find a solution using typical search engine search phrases. I found a number of issues similar to mine that pointed toward local network protocols such as media serving, and the ability or lack of ability to use these protocols by DSL routers.
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Assuimg you have the latest ATV firmware, at the bottom of the general settings menu on your apple TV there is an option to reset your apple TV. Try that and then reset it up back on your network.
Before testing ensure the correct time/date/nearest City is setup in the ATV settings and re-enter your apple ID/password and turn on home sharing. You can connect to your network either via wifi or cable and see if it then works.
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