Copying song between accts on one computer. Does this count as 2 computers?

My mini has 2 accounts, mine and my wife's. When I purchase songs from iTunes store, they go into my ITunes library. I want to put some of these songs on my wife's iPod, so I make a copy of the song in my library, move the copy to the shared file, log in as my wife and move the copied song to my wife's iTunes library. I understand that iTunes limits number of copies and number of computers.
Does this count as 2 copies and 2 computers? Thanks,
Owen

Two user accounts on one computer would use the same computer authorization. You don't have to authorize individual accounts, just each computer.

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The shared libraries still work, and I can play songs from my wife's library and vice-versa, but we can't even manually copy songs. The "Settings" and "Import" options on the bottom are missing, the option to show songs missing from my library is also missing, and where I used to be able to drag songs from one library to another, this no longer works.
Both of our computers are on the same network and we are both logged into the same account. I read other posts that suggested turning off home sharing on both computers. I did this, rebooted both computers, and then turned sharing back on. Still no importing. I also tried logging out of iTunes and logging back in again, but still no dice.
Apple products are so nicely designed, but when they break, they often leave no clues as to what is going wrong, and it can be infuriating trying to figure out why!
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Ron

Okay ... I just solved my own problem. I read about turning on / off home sharing, but I didn't realize that there are two similar sounding options for doing this. I went to "Preferences --> Sharing" and chose to turn on / off sharing of my library. This did nothing.
However, I later noticed that in the Menu Bar under "Advanced", there is also a way to turn on / off home sharing. I turned this on / off, and my files are now sharing again. Yay!!!
Ron

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