2 ipods, 2 laptops, 1 family

Hi all.
Me and my partner both have a ipod classic 80g, and our own laptops. Tonight, i gave her all the music (as her ipod is new) from my laptop. Next, she installed itunes and keeping my libary on her ipod, she would delete what she didnt want, then additionaly add more of her own cd's to her ipod.
But this wont work...
I can put my music on her ipod, but she when she plugs it into her laptop and itunes to add her own music, it wont let her..
How can we get round this?
Cheers

*I can put my music on her ipod, but she when she plugs it into her laptop and itunes to add her own music, it wont let her..*
Is she getting a message that the iPod is linked to a different library and asking if she wants to link to this one and replace all her songs etc? If that's the case then the iPod is set to sync and load songs automatically from iTunes. If you want to connect and use an iPod on more than one computer or with more than one library you need to change the update preference in the iPod Summary tab to "Manually manage music and videos" and click Apply. The content of iTunes and the iPod are not syncronised in this mode so the two can be different. You can directly access the content of the iPod and play it through iTunes and you can drag and drop whatever you want to the iPod from either library:
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