Help - Sharing media between different accounts on single iMac not working

So, we have an iMac with 2 user accounts. We wanted to simply share the media between accounts and I read these instructions from Apple Support which are very straightforward and easy enough to follow.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203
Basically, the article states you move the "iTunes Media" folder into the Public or other Shared file location and then you point each user account's copy of iTunes to that specific location for the iTunes media folder in preferences/advanced menu.
All of that was very simple and worked great, but the only problem is on the 2nd user account when I re-open iTunes, none of that media is there. I checked again inside the 2nd user iTunes preferences/advanced and it is definitely pointing to the right place. Per the specific instructions in the article, I tried both ~/Public as well as the Users/Shared too - both times I can see it fine from the main account but nothing from the 2nd user account.
Does anyone have any suggestions?? Thanks!

Adam,
iPhoto was not designed to be a multi-user application. While you can let other accounts view your photo collection by sharing, it gets messy when more than one owner has add and delete capabilities.
Having said that, you could probably do a similar thing with the iPhoto Library folder as what you've described with iTunes. Refer to the iPhoto Help topic "Moving the iPhoto Library to a new location".

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