2 iTunes libraries on one iMac - can't get around auto download for both devices

recently switched from Windows to MAC and happy sofar
I have an iPAD for a while, synced to an iTunes library with my apple-id on my iMac.
My son got an iPod touch for christmas. He has his own apple-id and I want everything kept seperate (he not messing around with my credit card info and I don't want all his fancy games in my library).
So he has his seperate user account on the iMac - seperate iTunes library - seperate apple-id.
So far so good...
But when I want to turn on auto download on his user, I get this famous message, that this computer is already associated with an other apple-id (sure, my id from my user account)
And I don't dare to switch it to his id because I am afraid that I would not be able to use auto download on my user account with my id.
Seams that the id is not linkt to a user account on a computer but to the physical computer itself.
I did a lot of research and the information I found is that the official and easiest way to use two devices for different persons with their own apple-id is to set up seperate user accounts with seperate itunes libraries.
So we keep everything seperate, the only issue is we are using two accouunts that happen to be on one machine.
Since I am a new MAC user, is there anything I am missing? Any config /setting that is not correct yet?
How are families with just one computer supposed to use individual apple-ids?
Thanks
Peter
(iTunes 10.5.2)

addition:
I know about the article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495
Method one suggests to set up two user accounts. This is just what I did, but it is still not working...
What am I making wrong?
Peter

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