Best way to avoid having duplicate copies of songs on multi-account mac?

In our household, we have several ipods, and 4 user accounts on our main household workhorse mac. As our music tastes are different but with some overlap, I wondered if there was alternative to wasting a bunch of harddrive space storing some identical albums in each user's own account? Can I just just set up each users ITunes configuration to use a common / shared folder for the music somewhere outside our own user account zone? Ideally I can see us then just setting up our personal playlists out of that common pool of music? Sounds too simple.
I don't want to sacrifice the separate user accounts, as I have work data in my area which needs to be secured from kids etc..
If so, are there any drawbacks? will it kick up a fuss if several users logon at once? will the ipods cooperate or will mass confusion ensue?
Any ideas or guidance from the i-intellegentsia appreciated...
Mac G5 dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) loaded

I went ahead and moved the files and it works fine from everyone's account. No duplication of music files necessary.

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