Adding another persons music to my computer and keep everything separate

I am getting married soon. My fiance and I both have iTunes on separate computers with our own different music. We will be getting rid of one computer. Is there a way to combine both of our libraries to one computer, but keep everything on each of our current iTunes separate from one another on the one computer so we can keep our iPods from getting each others music?
HP 775y Windows XP

Should be possible. You will need to transfer the files from one computer to the other somehow. If there will be no interaction between the music files then all you need to do is create a second user account on the computer. In that account, within iTunes import the files that user wants in the library.
Using two user accounts each one will have separate libraries and playlists.

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