ITunes Library incorrectly linked to Mounted Server

Hi there,
I've got a huge problem. I, foolishly, tried to share my iTunes library between my iMac and MacBook yesterday doing the following:
1. In System Preferences I added both my iTunes Music folder, which is located on an external hard drive and holds all my media files and my iTunes Library files, which are located locally on my iMac (Home - Music - iTunes)
2. On the MacBook, I opened iTunes and then under the preferences, selected the iTunes Music folder which now showed up within the finder when I selected the Shared - iMac option.
3. I then optioned click iTunes on the MacBook Pro and selected the iTunes Library as shared above (again, it showed up in Finder under the Shared option, where I clicked on the iMac symbol and was then able to pick the library folder).
On the MacBook Pro, when I now open iTunes it properly shows my iTunes library as it used to be on the iMac and when I add songs it adds them wirelessly to the external hard drive and updates the library, playlist, play count etc.
So far so good. That is what I wanted. Well at least until I went back to my iMac opening iTunes there and now while all the songs are still listed (including the new ones I added from the MacBook), all the songs in iTunes on the iMac have the exclamation mark next to them.
Double clicking a song brings up to boxes then. The first box says: "Connection failed. The server "iMac" is available on your computer. Access the volumes and files locally." When i hit okay, i then get a second box coming up saying "The Song "XYZ" could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?". If I hit Locate, I can go through to the external hard drive selecting the song and it plays, but my iTunes library is fairly extensive so it's not feasible to do that with all the songs.
What I think happened is that somehow the iTunes library files have been updated so to link to the iMac as a mounted 'server volume' when on the home network and while this works fine on the MacBook, the iMac still seems to link to the 'network' twin of its files rather than using the 'normal' library stored on its hard drive.
Is there any way I can revert back to the original set up - i.e. have my iTUnes library on my iMac, not sharing it etc. I've tried to remove the shared folders under the system preferences etc but nothing works so I'm a bit stuck as the last thing I want to do is to remove all the songs from iTunes and re-add them as I would like to keep the order they were added as well as the play count, dates and all that.
Thank you soo much for any help anyone can offer.

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