DIFFERENT ITUNES ACCOUNTS ON DIFFERENT COMPUTERS

I am very new to Ipod and Itunes, so forgive my ignorance on this issue. I have opened an Itunes account and have copied all my CD's (and some purchased songs) to that account. I have synched my Ipod, and that is not a problem. This is on my computer at my office.
The question I have concerns my son's itunes account, which is currently installed on our laptop. When I go onto the laptop under my user name and open itunes, the itunes account looks empty, whereas it looks full of my sons' music when I open itunes under his user name on the laptop. I had previously assumed that you can only have one itunes account on each computer, and that our laptop computer is now earmarked as my son's itunes computer, whereas my office computer is my itunes computer. Is it possible for me to have my itunes account AND my son's itunes account accessible on my laptop computer, or can I just access the one itunes account on that computer? Also, if it is just one itunes account per computer, why am I unable to access his song list when I open Itunes under my user name on the laptop?

I appreciate your response. I'm sure my question wasn't clear. I'm not expecting my music to "magically" appear on my laptop when it is in an itunes account on my office computer. My question was twofold: 1) Why when I open itunes on the laptop under my username do I not see my son's music, since his is the music that is in the itunes account on the laptop? (I do see his music library when I open the laptop itunes using HIS username.) and 2) Is there a way to have two different itunes libraries on the same computer? I'd love to be able to access my itunes library AND his itunes library on the laptop, but my hunch is there's no way to have two different libraries. I don't want to combine the libraries, because I don't necessarily want his music on my ipod and vice verse. Thanks for your input----

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