2 users, but same Music and iTunes Library?

Is this possible?
Currently my wife plugs her iPhone into her user setting and syncs her music and photos as per her iTunes and iPhoto library. I do the same with my iPod Classic in my user account.
Trouble is that historically we have kept all our camera taken photos in my iPhoto Library (so we have everything together), but now she wants to be able to upload snaps taken with her iPhone to our Mac, and be able to download older/camera taken snaps to her iPhone.
On the music side of things my wife has a library made up of ripped CDs that are stored on the Shared User account and have been manually 'added to library'. Adding music in this way is a real bind as I have to rip in my user setting (with the library housed in the Shared User folder) and she then has to route out new additions.
And then there's my recently purchased Apple TV. I can see a way to access 'her' music, but what about photos?
I just want all of our music and photos, regardless of who ripped or uploaded them to be available to both of us - on the Mac, our portable devices and the Apple TV, with our own playlists/albums created in our own accounts.
Am I asking too much? Does 10.5 address this (I'm going to be upgrading in the next couple of weeks)
Thanks

I can share my wife's library in iTunes, and vice versa, but this does not solve the problem
Sharing the library only gives access to the other person's library and playlists for playback purposes (I think). As far as I'm aware it doesn't allow my wife to create her own playlists when sharing my library from within her User Account.
My wife would only plug her iPhone into the Mac when logged in to her User Account as she needs to sync her Contacts and iCal across USB (she doesn't pay silly money for a duff MobileMe account - and they are duff - I've given up in mine). As such she can only sync with what is in 'her' library. And that's the issue - we have to have 2 libraries!
As for iPhoto, again, I'm fairly sure that sharing my library won't mean that she can either upload to it from within her User Account or download from it to put 'shared' photos onto her iPhone.
However, I'll check tonightand post back.
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