Multiple copies of iTunes ??

I have 2 iPods, one for personal use and one for use in my car. I want different iTunes library for each. Is this possible? I don't seem to be able to install iTunes twice and cannot see how else I can achieve this. Any help and/or advice gratefully received. I have searched the forum and cannot see this topic has been asked before.
Thanks
Paul
Athlon Windows XP Pro

There are a few things you could do.
The easiest would be to create seperate playlists for both iPods, and just sync to that.
Are the different iPods different capacity, in other words, are you not able to fit all your music on either? Because if you were able to fit it all on one and not the other, you could erase the check marks from the songs you don't want on iPod 2, and say Sync only checked items. Then on iPod 1, you could say sync all items.
Or, you could use seperate computers.
Or manually load your music on the iPods.
There are probably other solutions I haven't thought of too.

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