Moving all iTunes' music to another Mac OS X account on the same system?

Hello.
I accidently have all the songs under the wrong account in Mac OS X 10.5.5 because I copied all songs from an old iPod Nano to a new MacBook Pro's HDD and a clean iTunes with Senuti program.
How can I move them to the other account on the HDD? Even as an administrator, I cannot access the account I want to move to in Finder. I see the "access denied" folders with their red sold circle with thick white horizontal lines and borders. Accessing Music folder showed "The folder 'Music' could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges."
Or do I have to log in with the correct account and reuse Senuti program to move all the songs again.
Thank you in advance.

Well, it was working until I need to add new songs from CDs. iTunes says I can't write to the shared iTunes music folder/directory when adding new songs from audio CDs. Shouldn't administrator let him have no problems? I even added his account to have read and write access to /Users/Shared/iTunes Music/. I copied the music folder to his local account and had no problems.
I noticed the shared contents had something like:
iTunes Music:
total 0
drwxrwxrwx+ 163 Ant staff 5542 Nov 3 07:45 .
drwxrwxrwt 7 root wheel 238 Nov 30 17:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 Ant staff 102 Oct 12 07:36 Foo Bar 1
drwxrwxrwx 3 Ant staff 102 Oct 12 07:35 Foo Bar 2
Is it because of Ant and Staff names instead of root and wheel? I
didn't see anything about this in Finder's Get Info. I also didn't see
a way to do recursive too like in Windows. What am I missing?
Thank you in advance.

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