ITunes Won't Recognize iPod Shuffle with Multiple Users

I'm having trouble getting iTunes in my user account to recognize my 10 year old's iPod shuffle.
Here's the problem. I share my laptop (running Windows XP home) with my 10 year old son. I have a 2nd generation iPod and I have iTunes set to sync automatically with my iPod. That works fine.
Meanwhile, I just got an iPod shuffle for my son. He has his own user account on my computer, and when we log off my account, then sign in to his account and launch iTunes, iTunes recognizes his iPod shuffle just fine and is able to put music on it.
But sometimes I want to put a few of the songs from my library on his iPod shuffle.
The problem is, when I log off his account and switch to mine, then attach his iPod shuffle to the USB port, I first get a message which asks me if I want to link his iPod shuffle to my library and replace all the songs with songs from my library. When I click "No" the iPod shuffle does not show up in the source list (and, I have noticed, it also disappears from "My Computer" after I click "No" in that dialogue box).
Is there any way around this problem? Any way I can get the iPod shuffle to show up in the Source list when I am logged into my account?
thanks
PD

Hi, thanks very much for your note, but I don't believe that document solves my problem.
My problem is not that I cannot set up separate libraries on one computer -- I have been able to do that successfully.
My problem is that I cannot get MY library to recognize my son's iPod. As I stated, each time I connect his iPod shuffle, I get a dialogue box asking if I want to link his iPod shuffle to my library. When I click "No" the iPod shuffle is not recognized, and also disappears from "My Computer".
Is that how it should be working normally? (I have always been able to connect different iPods to my library. But perhaps this is how the iPod shuffle works -- it can only be recognized by one library?)

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