No shared catalog supported in Lightroom 3?

Hi,
I was using Lightroom 2 with a shared catalog on my mac. It was shared between me and my wife who login as different users. The catalog was simply put in directory where both users had full read & write access.
I tried the the same with Lightroom 3. The first user opens the catalog and everything is fine. The second user can open the catalog (when it is closed with the first user) but does not see any images unless I go to the develop module. Then the (individual) image appears normally.
It seems as if the second user cannot access the previews. Any idea?
Regards,
Oliver

I have the same problem - one catalogue, two user accounts (but only one using the machine at any one time). Permissions set to Read and Write for both people for the Catalogue & the Preview files, and for the folder in which they reside. Also the Backup folder is Read and Write for both people. This is on MacPro running Snow Leopard 10.6
The catalogue and previews were created in my account. I see all images as thumbnails and the Standard previews, and have no other problems using Lightroom 3
From my wife's computer account, in Library mode we see a correct list of all the image folders, with the correct number of images, but no thumbnails or standard previews can be seen. But if we go into Develop mode the correct image appears, and after exiting Develop that image is now displayed in Library mode.
Additionally, on exiting from my wife's account, if we specify that a Catalog Backup is to be made, Lightroom 3 starts the backup process until the progress bar reaches about 80% towards the right hand side and then it stalls. Eventually we made a Force Quit. But when we then switched to my account, Lightroom 3 could no longer load the catalogue that we had tried to load from my wife's account. Redirecting Lightroom 3t o the previous backup catalogue restored things for my account.
If the problem is a permissions one, are there other files that Lightroom uses ?
This was not a problem with Lightroom 2.7, but I did not try either of the Lightroom 3 Betas

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