No Share menu in Itunes 10.5.3.3

I am trying to update my music library via homeshare however, there is no Share menu after I upgraded to itunes 10.5.3.3.  I've tried turning off the homeshare and restarting itunes, uninstalling and reinstalling itunes, and  i've also tried repairing itunes.  I've tried looking for threads on this but haven't found one.  I see its also a problem on my daughters ibook.  I have a PC running Vista. Is there a fairly simple fix?  Or, If it's more complicated, can someone please explain it step by step?

I only have my own MacBook Pro to test on, but this resolved the issue for me.
Creating a new user resolves this issue for that user. For existing users, I did the following. Note that 'staff' is a group to which my work and home accounts both belong.
Log in as root or a different user with sudoer permissions.
Go the the 'Users' directory.
Where 'username' is the home directory of the user for whom the menu bar is no longer working type:
Type 'chown -R username:staff username', without the quotes.
Type 'chmod -R g+r username', again without the quotes.
Log back into the 'username' account and the menu bar should be functional. And probably several other preferences issues which the update borked by getting the file permissions wrong.

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