Share Contacts for multiple Users on one Mac?

Is it possible to share Address Book between users on a mac? I use Mobileme, and my wife and I have combined all our contacts into one address book. Now we have a new iMac and want to set up separate user accounts, but unless she gets everything (mail, bookmarks, contacts) I don't see how she can continue to access our joint address book. She does not, by the way, have her own Mobileme account.
Any suggestions? This might be covered elsewhere, if so I'm sorry to rehash the topic.
Bryan

I assume you've already got the email account sorted out. If you are using the same POP account you will want to tell Mail not to delete the messages from the server when you pick them up. IMAP is not problem.
I use Xmarks to sync my Bookmarks between Safari, FireFox for Mac and Windows, and IE 8 on Windows: http://www.xmarks.com/ - You need to install it to each browser.
There are several sync solutions for the Address Book, including using Google Calendar.
Since you've already set up a MobileMe account you can upgrade to the family plan for $50 and add her, your mom, kids etc. You sync all of the programs you want and she also gets iDisk that she can share files from and the rest of the features.

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