Unable to limit sharing of selected playlists in iTunes

I am able to successfully share my entire iTunes library from my primary computer to my other computer and my apple devices. I want to only share my music but not movies, photos, podcasts, books etc. I have selected the music and the playlist I wish to share from within Edit/Preferences/Sharing in iTunes.
I even tried putting on a password.
My other computer and devices see everything. They do not even need to enter a password.
How can i actually limit what the other devices and computer see in my shared library? Is there a file i need to delete or a setting that needs resetting?
If i rename me shared library from my primary computer this new name appears in my devices along with the older name. Also, everything is visible from them too. Nothing i do seems to restrict my computer and devices from seeing only the music i wish them to.
Any suggestions???

I have now done a complete removal and reinstall of itunes using the procedure defined in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1925 and still no luck. Not one of the videos, movies or TV shows in my iTunes library will play in itunes. ie. none of the m4v files. This all seemed to start when I downloaded a movie from the itunes store. It wouldn't play, and then as descrbed above, none of the others would either.
Whenever I try to play a video, itunes just freezes for a few seconds then nothing. Are there any itunes or windows logs files which I can check ?
Once again, any help would be much appreciated.

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