ITunes playcount syncing between two different machines (9.1)

Hi
Home share is almost perfect but it does not allow me to sync my playcounts within my iTunes library. I have a imac which is the main guts of my network, but I use a laptop for bits and bats. This includes occasionally downloading or playing music. It annoys me that it does not sync the playcount. My apple TV does, my iphone and ipods do - why not the laptop.
I have a network, and have considered putting the itunes library on a shared drive with my airport extreme - is this efficient? I'm imagining that it will take a while to fill the library etc over the wireless network. I was hoping someone may have come up with a script to deal with this issue, but nothing so far....
Anyone any ideas?
Thanks

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YamiPod Mac and Windows Versions
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