Two Computers, Two iPods - how to sync between all of them?

I have four Apple products:
Mac Mini, OSX 10.6.4
Macbook Pro, OSX 10.6.4
iPod Touch 8gig, 3G iOS4
iPod Touch 32gig, 3G iOS4
I have different apps on the Mac Mini than I do on the Macbook Pro, and different apps on each iPod Touch. I want to sync them. I want to be able to put the apps from my Mac Mini on my 8 gig iPod touch, and put apps from my Macbook Pro on the 32 gig iPod touch. (My husband has bought some apps I want on my iPod, etc.)
How can I do this? When I plug my 8gig iPod touch into the mini (the 8gig has previously been synced with the Macbook Pro) it tells me that in order to sync apps from the Mini it has to delete all the apps on the iPod.
They were all bought using the same account.
How can I put all the apps on all the machines - or, at least, both iPods?? Is it possible? Click and drag for apps doesn't work.
Thanks!

Thank you - homesharing is exactly what I wanted. Never noticed this before. (Never owned two Macs before!
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