Can a Mac and a Win share the same music library on an external?

I have a Powerbook, my wife a Toshiba laptop, both are authorized under my account. She's relatively new to iTunes and ipod so she has a small library on her Win machine. My Itunes library has grown so large I'm about to move it to an external drive. I'd like her to be able to access that library to load her ipod.
Is it a matter of formatting the external the correct way?
Powerbook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Interesting question!
I think the answer is FAT32, but I'd rather you tried NTFS first.
grin

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