Connecting 2 ipods to one cpu?

I have two kids with two different likes in music(country and rock). How can I seperate the two kinds of music with one cpu? When I connect each ipod, they both sync with all the songs in the library. How can I specialize each ipod for the music each one likes, but not download the others songs on each others ipod?

How to use multiple iPods with one computer
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432
Patrick

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    I haven't researched it and I don't claim to know everything about iTunes, but it has always been my understanding that you can only use one computer per iPod, but you can have multiple iPods per computer. From what I understand, this is to prevent illegal sharing and whatnot.

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