Sharing itunes : macmini can play playlist not a precise song...

I've my music on an Imac (MacOS 10.5.8 and itunes 9.02). I can play whatever song i choose, hopefully !
I've also a Macmini (MacOs 10.4.11 and itunes 9.02). But when i want to listen my music from the Imac, i can only play the playlists i've created before on my Imac... If i want to play particular song i want, it saies 'impossible de lire ce morceau." "unable to play this song"....
Any advice ?

Just another datapoint to add...I tried a few different things yesterday and I can get the following files to play:
1. Free Downloaded video from iTunes (Horton hears a Who - Anatomy of a Scene)
2. Digital Movie (Bolt) that requires some authorization from the iTunes store.
The movies that won't stream from one XP box to the other XP box are all encoded using Handbrake (they work fine going to the AppleTV though.) I'm wondering if it has something to do with DRM or specific tags/metadata that needs to be included in the encode.
Also, this is something new for me (i.e. I haven't tried sharing libraries or streaming from one iTunes instance to another prior to upgrading iTunes to 8.1) My daughter got a laptop and we wanted to keep all of our media in one shared location in the house. Hopefully this will work at some point.
Thanks,
Mike

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