3 Users,1 Mac: 3 logins,1 Music folder. How can each user access the Music?

I posted this in a different thread but I don't think the topic is clear.
I have one PowerMac that I share with my wife and daughter, and we each have our own login and password so we can keep our Mail and iChat accounts seperate. We want to all be able to access and use all of the music in iTunes, but we want to manage playlists and to sync our iPods with the instance of iTunes in our own login. I also want to have only one copy of each song on the hard disk to maximize usage.
Sharing allows us to do just that. We can all listen to the songs, but only if the owner (me) is logged in first. But we cannot use them, per se.
Of the 5000+ songs in the library all but a handful of iTMS songs were ripped from my CD collection.
It seems as if OSX handles the users as seperate instances of the OS as if they were on entirely different computers.

Hi,
This Apple document explain how to do it:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93195
"How to share music between different accounts on a single computer"
If you have any questions let us know.
Sara.

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