2 iPods on the same iTunes / different libraries? Possible?

My girlfriend got a Nano for Christmas, but she only has Win98 on her computer at home. So instead of upgrading to Win XP (she'll do that down the road), she gave me her iPod and gave me a whole bunch of CD's she wants on her iPod.
I ONLY want to put the music she gave me on her iPod. I'm afraid that when I hook up her iPod to my iTunes, it's going to import every song I already have on there (definitely not her taste in music!)
Is there a way to separate libraries on iTunes, as to keep all her songs in one nice library, and to keep mine in another main library?
Of course, I agreed to do this favor for her, to tide her over until she upgrades her windows OS. After I get all her songs on her iPod, I'm deleting them off my iTunes.
So what's the score? Is it possible to upload certain songs (ie. a specific library) onto her iPod?
I've only had iTunes for about a month now, so I'm still pretty new at this kind of stuff.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432
Take a look at the above link to see the procedures for using multiple iPods on one computer. It will tell you how to do what you are asking.

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The iPod offers three ways to transfer music from your computer. You can select one of the following update modes from the iPod Preferences menu in iTunes (Edit=>Preferences=>'iPod' tab):
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