Can 2 people share itunes? and not transfer each other's music?

Can someone help? I have an ipod as well as my boyfriend. We are both using itunes on the same PC and if I plug in my ipod, I get all his music and vice versa. How can I just transfer the music that I want and not the entire library?? Do we have to set up 2 seperate libraries or something? I am new at this, so I am clueless! HELP!

Here's an Apple "How To" on the subject: "How to use multiple iPods with one computer" http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432

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