Itunes 7- can two different ipods run on same itunes?

i have a 30gb ipod video and my husband has a nano. i have itunes on my computer twice in different user accounts for our ipods but since installing the new itunes 7 my husbands itunes will not open it gives me an error message. i uninstalled his itunes and reinstalled but then i couldnt open my itunes. i reinstalled itunes 7 and now i am back to my original problem.
Can i have my ipod and my husbands nano run from the same itunes? will my library be added to his nano and will his nano library be added to my itunes? please help this is frustrating me.

tean5289,
This article addresses using multiple iPods on the same computer.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432
Method Two in the article is the method my wife and I have used in the past. I had mine set up to sync my playlists, plus the recently added playlist. That way if she added any music, I had 2 weeks that it would show up on my iPod, and give me time to move the song to one of my own playlists.
i have turned the fast switch for the user accounts
off. when i log into my husbands user account and
open his itunes it still tells me that it cannot be
opened an unknown error has occured.
anyone know a soloution? hence my original question
can ipod video and nano run from one itunes library?

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