Linkstation NAS drive problem

Hi
Can anyone help...what am I doing wrong?
I recently purchased a Buffalo Linkstion NAS drive, where I moved all my music too (fed up with having to have one PC on all the time to access the music from various devices).
I can see and play the music from the drive (the drive has an itunes media servier option which is enabled) via all laptops PS3, TV that is attached to my home network...great! It shows up on my laptop as a "Shared" resource
What I cannot understand or sort out is the ability to:
1. Create Playlists (which can then be played elsewhere)
2. sync or add tracks to ipods
Is the only way to do this by copying the music locally (from the NAS) before creating Playlists or synching music??
The PCs have been "authorised". I'm running Vista/XP home wireless network with the NAS drive/TV and PS3 hard wired via a router.

I presume i move both iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml files. If so where to and do i need to re-config itune afterwards?

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