Copying library from one user to another

I have 2 Nano's. 2 very different song preferences. I want to keep the two libraries separate but right now all of the songs are in one library. I am tired of unchecking and rechecking every time we want to update one iPod.
Question is: If I consolidate the library to the other user (in Docs and settings) then go to that account and delete the music not desired, then come back to the original and do the same along with changing the itunes location to point to the account in documents and settings will I ruin anything?
My basic question is if I consolidate do I lose the pointer to the original location? I want the same library in both users and I will manually delete the songs from each user so they each have their own library.
Keep in mind that all of the CD's were loaded and are presently in 1 library which is driving me nuts.

Hi beeb,
Jeff and I both use a mac not Windows so I hope this will work.
When I had to do something similar I found the folder on my hard drive that contained the album I wanted to move. I copied that to the hard drive of the other machine and then used the Add to Library command in iTunes.
This worked but I lost my ratings and my play count.
Give this a go to see if it does what you need. Copy only, don't move, then you won't be any worse off.
If it does work then you can move things around.
One thing to be wary of is if an album has multiple artists - they are in different folder for each artist. Well they are on the mac
Hope this helps until a Windows expert comes along.
Regards,
Colin R.

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