Itunes multiple libraries question, Help!!

first all thanks for any help that is provided....
my situation is this:
i have a MBP w/ an 80 gb HD. i have about 80-100 GB of videos and another 30GB of music that i would like to be able to store on my Apple tv and Ipod. i first tried using an external HD to store it all, but ITunes would change my music folder path on me.
so then i found out about multiple libraries, my question is this:
Can an ipod be synced to multiple libraries that are all on the same computer?
or anyone have any suggestions on how i can do this?

Hey acrahm,
The iPods that support Manually manage mode can sync with multiple libraries.
More information here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61675
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304447
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