ITunes 10 - Mutliple Accounts no longer working on ATV

Just when I thought upgrading to Itunes 10 was a breeze...
In my house we have 3 Apple TV's. My wife and two kids each have their own iTunes accounts. We often play each others music or watch each others shows or movies and simply authorise all 4 computers to play each others purchases so this can happen. The only rule in the house is that if anyone adds items to their iTunes library (purchase or otherwise) it needs to be imported to my iTunes library (I use Home Sharing to do this) so we can keep one library with ALL our content. This library is then backed up (synchronised) with a Raid 5 NAS for safe keeping. All sound good so far? Well, it has always worked for us. The syncing library for all Apple TV's was, naturally, my library which would happily sync any content within my library no matter who had purchased it. I have been doing this for nearly three years without a hitch.
Like many of you, I installed iTunes 10 on the day it appeared. Other than the change in the GUI, nothing changed. The sync's to the Apple TV's kept working. The library updates kept working. In fact, all was good in the household.
Every now and then I factory reset the Apple TV's because the response time from the remotes seems to improve each time I do it (maybe once every 3 months). After the firmware update I connected the Apple TV and started up syncing again. This time things were not good. The only thing it would sync were the items that were "owned" by the Apple TV at the time (ie the account login on the ATV). The rest were rejected in Itunes with the old message "items could not be synced because the Apple TV could not contact the store for authorisation" (or words to that effect).
Bummer! Why would they need to chnage this?

Well, I stand corrected (thank goodness).
In the past, all I have had to do was to make sure my copy of iTunes was authorised in order to have a trouble free sync of all content. Just out of pure luck I physically logged in and out of each account on my machine and then started sync again. This solved the problem but I can absolutely assure you that this was not the case under previous versions of iTunes.

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