Sharing suddenly not working properly

Hi,
I have been sharing itunes on my imac with both an iphone 4 & ipad 2 for ages, all going smoothly.
Suddenly, about a month ago, both devices started to show only a handful of the artists and albums
whilst the actual songs individually are all shared. So on the song tab, all 4179 songs are listed, but
only 4 artists in the artist tab, and 75 albums in the album tab.
Have tried closing/re-starting, home sharing on/off etc. but nothing works.
The only non standard thing in my set up is that I have all the itunes media stored on an external drive.
Dont think this can be the issue though, as its been set up that way for about a year with no issues.
Would appreciate any ideas out there as to what is going on, and even how to fix.
Thanks.
My Specs:
Quite old white plastic imac
2.16 GHz Core 2
1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
250 GB - 75 used
iTunes 10.7 (21)
iphone 4
ipad 2
External Drive - Samsung Story - 1 TB - 380 GB used
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

FYI - I spoke to Apple support earlier and this is still not an acknowledged issue. Ergo, no one is looking into it.
They have 'offered' to call me back when at home to go over my setup that was working fine in IOS5 but not IOS6 as the setup MUST be the issue. Not sure if I made things worse by pointing out that I'm and IT consultant and have worked with Apple systems for more years than I'd care to admit to.....
The support tech I spoke said that her home sharing works fine. Hmmmmm.
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