ITMS - sharing music but not letting user purchase?

Hi, I'm helping a friend who's got an iMac and just bought a Macbook. She's transferred everything to her laptop, and now is planning on letting her kids use her iMac. She wants them to be able to listen to the music on her iMac's library (mostly iTMS purchased, and a bunch was purchased by her for them), but doesn't want them to be able to purchase music using her account. The kids, moreover, want to be able to use the iTMS to buy their own music and add it to the existing library on the iMac. Any ideas on how to set this up? She's not sharing with any other machines or users, so she's still plenty within the legal sharing limit on her music store purchases, I'd think.
Thanks,
Andreas
Mac OS X (10.4.7)

This works pretty well for Music but doing repeated 'Add to Library...' of the top level 'iTunes Music' folder seems to create duplicate library entries for Podcasts, which is a bit of a pain.
I've written a script to remove these duplicates but it would be nicer if Podcasts were handled in the same way as the music tracks.
NB. You can avoid it happening by doing 'Add to Library...', going into the shared 'iTunes Music' folder and selecting all the folders in there (A) then do -click on the 'Podcasts' and 'Movies' to deselect them. Then click 'Choose'.
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