Two iPhoto libraries sharing one mobileme account

Hi,
I use my macbook pro as my main iPhoto library where I download photos off my camera, use events, create folders and publish to my mobileme gallery. I then have a old iMac that I use as a media centre where its iPhoto library subscribes to each mobileme gallery using the RSS feeds and pushes those photos out to my Apple TV. That all works a treat.
The problem I have though is that both machines use the one mobileme account (so things like urls, dock icons etc are synchronised) which means that the iMac iPhoto library displays all the mobileme galleries (published from my MacBook Pro) and downloads all the photos. this essentially doubles the size of the iPhoto library.
Is there a way where I can turn off the retrieving of mobileme galleries on my iMac so that the only photos I get is via the RSS feeds?
Hope someone can help
Stewart

I have a similar issue, and hope someone can help.
I have two MacBooks, each has iPhoto. I do not want all the albums on the molible me account to be on both machines. Can I set something so only albums I want are scyned??

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