Synching/manual add to multiple iDevices with multiple computers.

Okay, Here's the issue.
I own an Iphone, and multiple versions of iPods (3 different Nano versions and an old Ipod Photo).
I also own three PC's. One desktop, one laptop and one netbook. All run windows 7.
Why is it that it is so bloody impossible to share the three different libraries with the different equipment?
I have a laptop at my girlfriends, my desktop at home and my netbook for when i travel. Ideally I should be able to plug any of the devices that i own and have registered to my apple ID into any PC that is an authorised PC on my account and just drag and drop whatever i want.
Unfortunately this is not the case.
I always enable manually manage music upon first registering a device, as i dont particularly like the whole synch option. I'd just ratherdrag and drop albums as i fancy them, so why can this option not just be tied to each device ID within my apple account, thus when i use one of my authorised machines the setting will be valid and hey presto i can take media and put it on to any of my devices. Is this so difficult?
I also have a WP7 phone, and it seems microsoft can manage this without any problems!
What happened to "Apple, it just works"?
Obviously not in this case.
After quite a bit of googling this is also not an isolated incident as people have been complaining about this since iTunes 7! (this was the earliest mention i could find)
Apologies if this sounds like a rant, its something that has irritated me since i got my iPod photo in 2003!
I am also aware of the editing the itunes music library xml file and replacing the persistent ID workaround, but this is a real pain to play about with.

Sync iPod/iPad/iPhone with two or more) computers
Although it isn't possible to sync an Apple device with two different libraries it is possible to sync with the same logical library from multiple computers. Each library has an internal ID and when iTunes connects to your iPod/iPad/iPhone it compares the local ID with the one the device normally syncs with. If they are the same you can go ahead and sync...
I have my library cloned to a small 1Tb USB drive which I can take between home & work. At either location I use SyncToy 2.1 to update the local copy with the external drive. Mac users should be able to find similar tools. I can open either of the local libraries or the one on the external drive and update the media content of my iPhone. The slight exception is Photos which normally connects to a specific folder on a specific machine, although that can easily be remapped to the current library if you create a "Photos" folder inside the iTunes Media folder so that syncing the iTunes folders keeps this up to date as well. I periodically sweep my library for new files & orphans with iTunes Folder Watch just in case I make changes at one location but then overwrite the library with a newer copy from the other. Again Mac users should be able to find similar tools.
As long as your media is organised within an iTunes Music or Tunes Media folder, in turn held inside the main iTunes folder that has your library files (whether or not you let iTunes keep the media folder organised) each library can access items at the same relative path from the library folder so the library can be at different drives/paths on different machines. This solution ensures I always have adequate backups of my library and I can update my devices whenever I can connect to the same build of iTunes.
When working with an iPhone earlier builds of iTunes would remove any file not physically present in the local library, even if there was an entry for it, making manual management practically redundant on the iPhone. This behaviour has been changed but it will still only permit manual management with a library that has the correct internal ID. If you don't want to sync your library between machines on a regular basis just copy the iTunes Library.itl file from the current "home" machine to any other you want to use, then clean out the library entires and import the local content you have on that box.
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