1 mac, multiple users

Hi all,
Running Aperture 2 on my iMac that I share with my wife. We each have a separate login for things like ichat, mail, safari prefs, etc. I am the photo enthusiast (hobby), but she likes to post a lot of the pictures (of our kids primarily) on our family website, and can make her way around Aperture enough to drag pix to an external upload folder
I've been using Aperture with the library on the internal drive, with backup on the external FW400, but am using it under her login so she has access to the pictures (library in her "pictures" folder). I would prefer running under my login so I have access to my setup. Would it make sense/work well to put the library on the external drive so it can be accessed by any user? Are there any permissions that would need to be changed? Or should I try to put the library in a shared folder on the internal hard drive?
I have a separate external HD for time machine.
Thanks for any and all thoughts.

Here are my observations from Aperture version 1. Basically it has flaws. What I do is use iPhoto as the multiple user photo application and every month I put our favorite images into iPhoto. If the iPhoto and Aperture library are both on an external drive, the iPhoto 7 may be able to see the Aperture library from any login. I have not tried that
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