ITunes & iPhoto Libraries in Time Capsule?

For months I've been considering buying a Time Capsule. I have several questions before I spend the money and I'm finding contradicting points in the discussion groups and other websites.
I have a MacBook with a 60GB HD and I'm rapidly running out of space, buying another computer with a bigger HD is not an option right now, so my first question is: besides hosting the Time Machine backups, can I use Time Capsule to have a second iTunes and iPhoto Libraries? I know that whatever files I have in the TC wouldn't be backed up with Time Machine, but I mainly want to transfer all the music and pictures that I have on CD's, so I wouldn't mind not having them backed up. Would I be able to access those pictures and music files from my laptop?... How about from the Apple TV (if I ever get one)?
With the new TC you are supposed to be able to access the drive over the internet (with a MobilMe account). If the answer to my first question is YES and it's possible to have iTunes and iPhoto libraries in the TC, can those be reached over the internet too? If I'm away, could I work with pictures and listen to music stored in the TC back in my house?
And my last question is: if you can't partition the drive in the TC, would it be possible that eventually it's 500 GB HD gets full with the incremental backups of my Macbook therefore not leaving any extra space for file sharing?
Thank you very much for your help

First thing I would say is make sure you buy the new Time Capsule - I bought the old version and had a ton of connectivity issues - the new one has been great. You are right that you cannot partition the Time Capsule harddrive via disk utility (you can do it if you open the capsule, remove the harddrive, etc - but this voids the warranty), and you can't allocate time machine disk space either so it will eventually fill up the entire tc harddrive. However, you can attach a usb harddrive and then use that as a file server - it acts just like the built-in drive and can be shared/accessed over wan as well. So in this setup you would have the TC drive for backup and the usb drive for files/pictures/music - you could do the reverse of this too (usb for backup, tc for files).
As far as moving itunes and iphoto folders - that's pretty easily done and works well enough. You may notice more sluggish performance though since you will be streaming over wifi and anything that you add will be copied over the network.
I haven't tested the mobileme stuff so i can't say whether that works or not. I'd say the potential is there, but in my opinion the mobileme implementation and performance is not up to par. I don't think you'd be able to do what you want to do in this situation since your itunes and iphoto directories would be set to a local shared folder (eg \\Time Capsule\...\iTunes music\) whereas the mobile me would be a web folder.

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I've found a solution to my problem.
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The complexity with this idea is the software has to run from a Mac computer on your network.. so you need a Mac turned on, probably most of the day.
It isn't possible to partition the TC although you can create a image area.
The software would have to copy the material, that means all files to be copied, go from USB drive, back to the Mac, then back to the TC, and written to the drive. In other words you have just added Network congestion, although a proper incremental backup type software will not actually use a lot of capacity.
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/4577/airport-extreme-5th-gen-and-time-capsule-4th- gen-review-faster-wifi-/4
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A file you download goes.. Modem---TC--Laptop--Back to TC--Store on disk. Double looping the wireless slows it dramatically..
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/24380694#24380694
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Major issues.
1. No backup.. no way Time Machine can backup a network drive. No place to backup to.. So all your files will be at risk. And you will need to buy a third party like CCC to do backup.
2. The TC cannot be partitioned and mixing TM backups and data is not great.
3. The drive is slow to spin up and quick to spin down.. there is no controls.
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6. Do not use any live files on the TC no matter what else you do.. if you edit files in whatever program the file must be on the local hard disk.
7. The only suitable location for most libraries is a computer. You can plug in an external hard disk.
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