Multiple users on the same machine using a common iTunes Library

I'm running iTunes from my user profile in Vista, the songs are stores in a shared directory.
My wife recently purchased an iPhone, so I decided to setup her phone under her user profile in Vista, so she could use her contacts out of outlook, this meant I had to setup iTunes for her. All the outlook contacts sync with her phone (no issues), but when I point the music library to the directory where I stored the music I can't see the library.
I have searched under my user name and found the iTunes library.itl, this file in my user directory, not accessible when I wife is logged into her account.
Is there any way to have different user profiles on the same machine access the same music library in iTunes. So when I purchase music under my account and download it to the library, my wife's iTunes will also see the music, I'm okay if I have to do a manual sync, under her iTunes..

Move the \Music\iTunes\ folder to a Shared directory.
Hold Shift and launch iTunes.
Select *Choose library* and select the _iTunes library.itl_ file in the \iTunes\ folder in the Shared directory.
Quit iTunes then let yoru wife log in and hold Shift and launch iTunes.
Select *Choose library* and select the _iTunes library.itl_ file in the \iTunes\ folder in the Shared directory.

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