Itunes with different accounts.

Just bought this iMac (2.4/1gb) and I'm just getting into the iTunes. To this point all has been great except I cannot figure out why the songs I buy or import on one account don't appear when you use iTunes on the other account on the same machine. Is there an easy way to fix this?

This should help:
iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer
Note that when it says "publicly accessible location", it needs to be a place where everyone has read and write access. The most common such place is the Shared folder in the Users folder.
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Regards.

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