Using Cover Flow from 1 Mac on another.

I'm putting together a music server using my Mini. The idea is to allow the other Macs on the network to access this one computer for all of the recorded music in the Mini's library. I am doing this successfully, but for two things that have to do with Album artwork and Cover Flow when running through iTunes.
When connected to the shared iTunes folder, all of the options in the VIEW menu are grayed out — all that's available is List View. It would be great to be able to change the view to Cover Flow so that users could view the cover art just as you can from the host computer. I've gone through all of the preference panels but haven't found anything that looks like it would accomplish this. Am I missing something? Would netTunes do this for me?
Likewise, when using Front Row to access the shared music folder, none of the artwork is present. Any way to see the art in Front Row?
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This is one that I was able to solve on my own. Thanks for all the suggestions.

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