Installing itunes with multiple users

I recently purchased a nano. However, there are three oher people in my house with an ipod. When I go to install the itunes under my windows username the installation wizard asks me if I would like to erase or clear itunes and completely uninstall. I am worried that all of the songs on the other three ipods will be erased. Does anyone know how to setup my ipod without starting over?

This should help:
iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer
Note that when it says "publicly accessible location", it needs to be a place where everyone has read and write access. The most common such place is the Shared folder in the Users folder.

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