HOW TO MAKE 2 IPODS SEPARATE ITUNES LIBRARY

HELLO, THIS IS MY FIRST TIME POSTING A QUESTION. I PURCHASED MY IPOD NANO IN DECEMBER AND MY DAUGHTER HAS ONE ALSO, SHE HAS A DIFFERENT ONE THAN MINE, IT HAS LESS STORAGE. MY QUESTION IS, WHEN SHE PLUGS IN HERS TO UDATE AND CHARGE IT SAYS HER NAME AND THE TYPE OF IPOD SHE HAS. HER LIBRARY FILLED WITH ALL HER SONGS AND SHE UPDATES. WHEN I GO TO PLUG IN MINE IT SAYS MY NAME WITH MY IPOD, BUT IT'S THE SAME LIBRARY WITH ALL HER SONGS. SHE DID PLUG IN MINE AND DELETED ALL HER SONGS AND PUT MY SONGS IN MY IPOD. BUT WHEN SHE THEN PLUGGED HERS IN, ALL HER LIBRARY WAS LOST, DELTED AND IT'S WAS THE SONGS SHE PUT IN MINE. SO...HOW DO WE KEEP OUR IPOD/ITUNES IN SEPARTE ONE FOR HER AND HER IPOD AND ONE FOR ME AND MY IPOD? THANK YOU.

It sounds as though you should look at syncing to a playlist rather than your whole library. That way you can control what goes onto each iPod.
See this general help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304708
And also this on using multiple iPods on one computer:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432
I was thinking of method 2, but you could look at the other methods too.

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