Transferring music from old to new computer - 2 problems/questions...

I was able to transfer my iTunes library from my old PC to my new desktop. I'm seeing the entire content in iTunes on the laptop just fine. Home sharing is enabled & the laptop has been authorized. Two problems remain.
1. I just downloaded 7 new tunes from iTunes store (on the laptop) but they aren't appearing on either PC or laptop when I search my library on them. Why ?
2. I have over 4000 tunes in my library but only about half are selected (i.e. checked) for sync'ing onto my iPod. But when I transferred the entire library to my laptop, everything is checked. I haven't connected my iPod to the lap top because I don't want everything transferred to it. Is there a way to sync the laptop with the PC so that the checked content is identical on both machines ?
Once I get this squared away, I intend to deauthorize the old PC. Please help.
Thanks !

Update -
Ok, I've determined that the the songs that I transferred from my PC were actually part of my shared library. There's always only been one computer in the house so sharing was never an issue. As I indicated above, I'm going to deactivate my old PC once I get all this settled. So maybe a better description of my issue is this:
I have over 4000 tunes in my iTunes library. About half are chcked for sync'ing with my iPod. Some are purchased from iTunes which I understand can be redownloaded from the Cloud. Others are from CDs that I loaded over several years. What I'm trying to do is to:
1. Physically transfer the contents of my old PC's iTunes library to my new laptop and ;
2. Make the checked selections the same between the two machines so that when I connect my iPod to the new laptop, it will sync with the same tunes it has now.
Hope this makes sense. Apologies for the initial confusion....!

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