ITunes Library not seen - Sharing Library with another account on same Mac

I have a done a search and tried some of the suggestions, but it doesn't appear to be working.
Background:
Had iTunes on a Windows machine.
Purchased about 60 tunes
Ripped all my CDs into the library
Bought an iBook
Purchased about 30 tunes on the iBook
Used the Network to copy the Music files to the iBook
iBook appears to have everything
Bought at 17" iMac - did a Target Disk transfer from iBook
Reformatted 17" and traded it in for 20" iMac
Did a Target Disk transfer from iBook to new 20"
Under my account on the iMac, I can see/use my entire library. Per suggestions here, I moved the iTunes Music folder to my Public diretory so that my wife could see the library too. When I loaded iTunes on my wife's account and did an Add to Library the only thing that shows up in her library is the 30 tunes I purchased using the iBook.
I have both accounts setup to point to the Public directory.
How do I make this work??
Also, I really only want one library to be shared between both of our accounts on both machines, but I do want the ability to take the library with me when I go mobile with the iBook. Is this possible?

I read the referenced thread and although the person got the desired results, I see two problems with the method they used. It sounds like they simply mad another copy of the library on the hard drive. First, this wastes disk space as you now have to copies of every song on the hard drive. Second, whenever music is added to either of the libraries, the other library will not see it and be out of "sync" unless you manually copy the new songs to the other directory.
I am looking for a solution in which their is only one central library.
Thanks
Carl

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