What Mac do you keep your iTunes stuff on?

Would love to hear from the community on here of people that have multiple macs like me; on which machine(s) do you keep and buy your music and videos on?
I have an iMac G5, that has a 250GB hard drive, so I currently use that as my base computer that has all my music and videos on it. Connected to it is my iPod dock, so that I can easily sync my iPod to have all my media that is on the iMac on it. I can use my intel mac mini to stream the content on my iMac to play and watch through the mini which is connected to my 32" LCD TV.
But my PowerBook, soon to be replaced with a MacBook, has nothing on it. I can stream content from the iMac to play on it, but when I am away from home, I only have my media on my iPod. Unlike a laptop or iPod, if either of those got stolen, I won't be losing my music, video, and photo collections becasue they are stored back home on my iMac. Plus, I like to keep my iPod as untethered as possible, so that it remains portable and not tied to printers, iPod docks, scanners, etc.
I don't really listen to music constantly in the background when I am on any computer, but it would be nice to have my music and photo collection with me on the road on my laptop. I have used, with limited success lately, Crispsofties's iPod.iTunes to transfer or sync music from my iPod to my PowerBook, but since the iPod video, it hasn't worked well.
Finally, with three computers to choose from, I find myself hesitant to surf iTunes Music Store seriously on anything other than my iMac, because I still don't see an easy way to transfer music I bought on one computer to my other computers. It seems that if I am signed into my iTunes account, and all 3 computers are authorized, I should be able to easily move and/or sync my iTunes library between all my macs.
So, with all that said, what do most of you do as a solution to where you keep your media when working with multiple macs?

Jim--
Here's what I do. I have a PowerBook that has my main iTunes library on it. It's the one my iPod is paired with. I also have an ancient iMac that has all the same songs on it. I use the iMac to stream music to my stereo.
I keep the libraries in sync between the PowerBook and iMac with file sharing via the local network or using FireWire drives. When I first transferred the PowerBook's library to the iMac, I copied the library to a FireWire drive and just re-imported the songs into iTunes on the iMac.
Ordinarily, when I have songs I want to transfer from one computer to the other, I use file sharing, since it'll only take a few minutes to transfer via ethernet. I just log in to the iMac and copy the files to its hard drive, then import them into iTunes.
This doesn't copy across play counts and playlists and such from one machine to the other, but I don't really worry about those features anyway. I pretty much stick to one smart playlist with iTunes that plays songs that haven't been played for a set amount of time.
charlie

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