2 ipods with 1 itunes?

I don't really like any of the methods that are mentioned on the support page and what "i'd like" to do seems possible, i'm just afraid to try until i ask around first,
I have a 160 and 20 gig ipod. I would like to manually manage both ipods by just dragging music into the ipods using 1 itunes library? Can it be this simple with out dealing with checked songs, playlists, multiple accounts, etc?

We do this at my house with no problems. In fact, we have had three iPods and libraries on three computers, all authorized to the same iTunes account. All three iPods have been plugged into all three computers and have had music manually managed.
Maybe I'm just simple, but if all you are doing is draging songs onto the iPod, this works fine. I simply have never taken the time and effort to organize my libraries, or even to rank songs other than the play count iTunes keeps up with.
Hope this helps!
(One caveat, all three computers referenced are PCs - I just got a Mac so I was looking in this discussion section. I would assume there is no difference, though.)
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