3 windows accounts, 1 library

I have 3 accounts on my Windows XP. I read that itunes will stay up in other accounts. I needed to follow that advice because in my account the window will not stay up. So I created a third account for that. Now my problem is that all my music is on my account and I can't put that on my other libraries. I tryed unistalling, but the same songs came up. I figured that I should delete the other two accounts, since the other person who use the computer uses my account. However it occured to my that it might backfire since as I mentioned earlier that my itunes window will not stay up. What should I do?
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I don't know if you can absolutely sync them together.
But what you can do is put all of the music in one place...like take the one music library with all the music, go to edit > preferences > Advanced (tab) and there will be a box with a source in it. Change it to a new folder, and then go to advanced > consolidate library. It will copy all of the music in that library to a new folder. Then, on the other users, just go to file > add folder to library and select the one that you consolidated the music to. It will add all of the music. Also, change your source folder the the folder you added. (Source folder = Edit > Preferences > Advanced (tab.) Unfortunately, you will still have to manually add any music that another person adds to that folder by ripping CDs.
Otherwise, I don't really know of a way to do what you're talking about.

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