View Photos over Network

I'd like to view photos on an HDTV with good quality at 1920x1080. Can anyone help me implement the following idea?
I have a desktop and laptop both running Vista and PSE 5 and they are connected over a wired network. The HDTV is connected to the laptop as a second monitor. About 15000 photos are on the desktop and cataloged in the Organizer.
I would like to open selected (using tags, collections, etc.) photos on the laptop running PSE using "View Photos in Full Screen" so I can zoom and move around the photos on the HDTV.
Is there a way to have the PSE catalog on the laptop "look" for photos on a mapped network drive that is on the desktop?
Obviously, the procedure cannot alter the catalog on the desktop so I don't lose photos, tags, etc.
I have used a similar, but piecemeal, procedure where I exported, say, all photos in a collection to the laptop. I then showed the photos on the HDTV using "View Photos in Full Screen" and it has better image quality than a slide show plus I am able to zoom, etc. I am not concerned with the "production" qualities, such as music, slide transitions, etc. But I would like to be able to do this for all 15000 photos over my network without copying.
Can you forsee any performance bottlenecks like network speed, laptop RAM/CPU, VGA vs. HDMI connection to the HDTV, etc.
Any ideas?

Hi Jeffree,
does this happen on both computers?
Unfortunately, several posters to these discussions have had that problem and so far I can't find any definite answers or rhyme or reason to it.
You can try rebuilding both the libraries.
You can try just sharing some of the albums instead of the entire library.
I have an iMac with 512 memory and iBook with 640.
They are wirelessly networked with a older NetGear router. I can share just fine with both computers, so I don't think it is a memory problem.
Could it be a signal problem? How far are the computers from each other when sharing?
Lori

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