Does 10.6 enable a better way to share an iPhoto Library? (Permissions)

Apple's official approach to sharing an iPhoto Library between multiple users is to move the library to an external drive or a new disk image with permissions disabled:
http://tqe.quaker.org/2007/TQE159-EN-War.html or use a
This is not a terribly elegant solution. The disk image will cause backup problems with a lot of software (single bit change causes 30GB backup) and an external drive is a bit silly.
The problem is the UNIX permissions model in 10.5. They cause many similar problems with sharing things. Every time a user adds or changes a file they get ownership, and other users lose ownership.
I believe Windows 7 does not have this particular problem.
Does 10.6 enable a better solution to the sharing and permissions problem than 10.5?

For iPhoto 09 (version 8.0.2) and later:
What you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc.
Quit iPhoto in both accounts. Move the Library to the Users / Shared Folder
(You can also use an external HD set to ignore permissions, a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.)
In each account in turn: Double click on the Library to open it. (You may be asked to repair the Library Permissions.) From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
This works on 10.5 and 10.6
Regards
TD

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