Making my music available to another user

Hi, a quick question...
I have two users using my MacBook Pro, and I want all the music that is available to me to be playable by the other user too. I have managed to set up persmissions so that the other user can access the Music directory on my home drive, and I have changed the other users itunes preferences to point to this folder, however none of the music appears in itunes.
Is there any way of adding all my music without double clicking on each mp3 seperately?
I'm using iTunes 7.3.2 and OSX 10.4.10
Thanks!

Quit iTunes.
Drag the iTunes folder to the Shared directory.
Start iTunes holding the Option key and select the *iTunes library* file in the iTunes folder in the Shared directory.
Quit iTunes.
Have each user start iTunes holding the Option key and select the *iTunes library* file in the iTunes folder in the Shared directory.
That's it.
Any and all changes by any user are seen by every user. This is because everyone is using the same iTunes library file.
In order to access iTunes, it cannot be in use by any other user at the same time.

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