My Home Shared Library won't load.

I need help here guys, I've uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes on both computers, the laptop with all the music can see the new PC's library, but when I tried to load the old library, it says "Loading Elijah's Library" for about 10 seconds and then nothing pops up, things return to the way they were before, I want to transfer all my music over, I did it once last time, but I had to wipe the new PC and start from scratch and now iTunes isn't working properly, help would be appreciated.

Also, sometimes when checking for new purchases on my library when it is loading, the ability to view that library under home sharing disappears completely

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Details:
-home sharing is turned on for both windows computers
-I am logged in with the same apple id on both home share accounts
-I have disabled my firewall as a precaution
-both computers are connected to the same network
-I am using windows 8.1 on my computer, windows vista on the other
-both computers are using iTunes 12.0.1.26
So I can see the home sharing icon on both computers and I can see the names of the other computers on each one. When I click the other library I want to see, it says "Loading Bob's Library", but it never loads. Earlier it would try to load and then just go back to my library, but now it seems that it just keeps spinning like it is trying to load, but it never does.
I have seen and read the "trouble shooting" suggestions by apple, so please don't recommend those.
Thanks for the help.

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Well, here we are in 2013, and this issue is still not fixed. I love my iPhone 4s, and I believe Apple makes the best mobile devises around, but Apple ***** so bad at interoperability, it is shameful. (I also love the fact that when I check the spelling using Apple's tool, the dictionary does not recognize 'iPhone.' LoL.)

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I turned on Home Sharing in the Remote app on my iPhone 4. It readily found my Home Sharing Library from my iMac (that contains 1306 items). After entering in my Apple ID and password, I tried to search for a recently purchased song using the Remote app and it didn't find it. I went to the iMac and immediately found the song in the Library and in the Purchased playlist. I also noticed that the Library on the iMac contains 2781 items.
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I have tried restarting all of my devices but that has not helped. I changed the account that the home sharing is setup for and that did not help. I rebooted the Windows machine multiple times. I disabled home sharing, rebooted, restarted home sharing, all to no avail. The library system is connected over Etehrnet so I made the system to a different port on the router with no luck. I have also unplugged the router nad plugged it back in, also with no luck.
So, I will try replacing the ethernet cable but I do not see that as being the issue. It seems like something on that computer.
Going through the Programs it looks like iTunes and Quicktime were both updated on 3 June, right around the time this started to occur. I also loaded items for my duaghters Nook, Adobe Digital Editions, so that she can get books. I removed the items that I loaded for the nook and that did nto fix the issue. I would like to downgrade iTunes, but I cannot find an old copy of iTunes plus I do not know if this will destroy the library contents.
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3. Could this be a corrupt library and is there a way t verify the library?
4. Any other things I can do and check
Thanks for any insight and help
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I have a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and a Dell Studio 15 with Windows 7. Each has the very latest version of iTunes 9 on it and a 500 GB HD. The library I want to share is slightly more than 200 GB in size.
My home sharing problem seems to differ from others' issues and I have not seen a discussion of the problem anywhere on the Web. Basically, both computers see the other's library as a home share and, when I try to access each, I get the appropriate screen with the "settings" and "import" buttons on the bottom. However, only the Mac actually gets access to the other computer's library. (On the Mac, I can both see and import from the Dell library.) The Dell, however, will just display the message "Loading [library name]" and does not complete that task. Eventually, it appears to time out, since the "loading" message stops displaying and I get dumped back to the main library listing. This happens whether the McAfee firewall is running or not. (When it is running, I've enabled the two ports referenced in the Apple Home Sharing Troubleshooting Guide found at Apple.com. but that has made no difference.)
I thought the issue might be a memory one, since the library is so large. However, the Mac is running with 2 gigs of RAM and the Dell has 4 gigs. I understand that the OS X and Windows 7 overhead requirements are about the same, so, if anything, there probably is more memory actually available to iTunes on the Dell. The other thought I've had is that the Mac may have a better wireless receiver than does the Dell, so it is better able to pick up the Dell over the network than vice versa. However, both machines' network strength indicators suggest they see excellent signals.
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Just to flesh this out a bit, the problem persists when I connect both computers to a wired network that includes an XP desktop system. The Mac can see and import from both PCs, but neither PC can see the Mac or the other PC. The latter fact suggests to me that the issue lies with the PCs and not with the Mac's transmission of data. Anyway, this still does not work as advertised.

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I have spent several hours searching the Internet to find suggestions but nothing seems to be working:
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