Combining libraries from multiple Windows User Accounts

I've had a look through several pages in this section of the forum but couldn't find a direct answer to my question...so here goes:
We have a small network of three Win XP PCs and a Buffalo NAS drive. The main house PC has three Windows user accounts: Mum, Dad & Son. Each user account has an iTunes account of its own, so three iTunes IDs and three iTunes libraries.
What we would now like to do is bring the three libraries together in to a central library that will live on the NAS drive.
The central library will be accessed by some Sonos streaming music players. I've set up MS SyncToy to copy new music files over from each of the source libraries, but I'm not sure about handling the album artwork.
Is there a better way of combining three libraries so that the albums and artwork stay together?
Any help on this would be appreciated :-)

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Or is there another forum here or elsewhere on the web where I might get a response?

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