Multiple iPhones on the same Mac

We've recently purchased several iPhones and they are synced to one Mac. I had no problem establishing separate accounts on the Mac so each iPhone could be properly synced. However, in the past we all purchased music with different iTunes accounts and put them in one big iTunes library on the original Mac account. Now I can't seem to access the original iTunes library from the other accounts on the Mac. Is there a way I can do this?

This link should be helpful.
http://www.macworld.com/article/58571/2007/06/sharingituneslibrary.html

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