Networking to a music libraby with ability to edit playlists

hello all. i have been able to get my network set up to where i can stream playlists from my main computer with the large hard drive and all the music on it, works great. what i cannot figure out is how my wife can go in on her older laptop with practically no hard drive space on it, edit her playlist that is stored on my office computer and then sync her ipod using the office computer.
to reiterate, she will really just be editing the playlist using the laptop. no music is stored on there and she won't be synchronizing with it. she will however need to see all the songs on the shared network and be able to use them to build her playlist. is this possible and if so how would we do that?
thanks

Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General has the location of the iTunes music folder. That is where ripped CDs will go.
The My Documents\My Music\ folder is a special windows folder. If you want to move that, it might be easiest for you to use TweakUI, google for it.
I don't know about the folder view.

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