Retaining View Options in Shared Library

FYI: i'm running Mac OS 10.7.3 & iTunes 10.5.3
i have my library on a Mac Mini in the house. i use my MacBookPro for everything. My library is too large to keep on my laptop, so when i'm home, i just pop open iTunes and select the Mac Mini's library in the SHARED section to listen to tunes.
essentially two issues...
1) i hated that every time i created a new playlist, i had to re-select the View Options as i wanted them to be. this was just solved by using the Assimilate View Options script that i found during my investigations. it works fine for whatever i have on my local library (which isn't much), but it does not work for anything in the shared library.
1b) sidenote issue with that: when using it on the local library, it does great with choosing all the columns that i have setup. it does not, however, deal with the column widths & order nor which view mode i want (Album List + Always Show Artwork). argh.
2) so i continued my journey to finding the right app/plug/help/hack/whatever and ran across the Change Hidden iTunes Preferences script/app. this too works great for creating new playlists with the view options i want already in place (by checking the Changing view settings is global option). but this also only works on my local library and not the shared library views.
2b) sidenote with this one: this has the same issue as 1b above - exactly. arghx2.
NOTE: i realize i cannot actually change the view options on my shared libraries iTunes on the Mini - i just want the iTunes on my MBP to retain either the view options i want/set when using the shared library -or- have the view options that i actually have on the Mini's iTunes Library to display when viewing thru my MBP.
does that all make sense?
any thoughts would be appreciated.
THANKS.

This is by design. The artwork is not sent when browsing the shared library to avoid swamping the network. Sending the artwork for every track would generate a lot of network traffic.

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