Ipad/itunes accounts

i'll try to make this brief (forgive me).
i have my own personal itunes account on my macbook. i bought my wife/kids an imac, and set up a separate itunes account under my wife's name, so as to keep our stuff separate.
yesterday, i received my ipad. i went to sync it with my macbook, but my macbook software wasn't up to date (10.4.11). ipad could only sync with 10.5 or later. so i synced my ipad with my family's imac. unfortunately, the only songs i can download onto my ipad now, are my kids music.
i tried signing into itunes on the imac with my account, but the music was still my kid's stuff. i didn't try syncing my ipod with my itunes account on the imac, for fear of somehow losing all of my music on my ipod, and getting my kids stuff instead.
is there a SIMPLE way to somehow get my itunes music from my account, onto the imac, separate from my kids stuff, and then sync my songs with my ipad. even though, the itunes account on my ipad is under my wife's name, since i had to originally sync on "her" computer?

Any apps that you have on a Mac will sync with the iPad regardless of what store they have from
I have a US account and UK account. I can only access the US account direct from my iPad at the moment until the UK release.
Once the UK store is up and running and I can access direct from my iPad I will probably no longer use my US account although they do have some stuff not available in Uk, in fact I have downloaded iBooks from the US which I am sure I have read will not be available in the UK until later this year.
So to answer your question you use any account to download apps to your Mac and then sync via USB to iPad or to use app store direct from iPad at the moment you will need a US account, which is easy to do and you don't need a US credit card

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