Multiple users/profiles, one library?

Until recnetly, my daughter had the only ipod in the family and was the only itunes user. Now the whole family has an ipod. We all have seperate Windows profiles (one for Mom, Dad, daughter, etc.) but want to use one library to store all of our music and control ipod content with playlists. How can we do that? Sharing only seems to work between computers - not user profiles.
Nano and Shuffle   Windows XP  

I happened on to this Windows discussion by mistake, but did have the same problem with my Mac... don't know if the solution for the Mac is at all transferable to PC or not, but...
I found my "iTunes Music" folder... in Mac it's in the "music" section of the HD window.
I then moved this folder (containing the music, etc. I want as the main library) to the "shared" folder in the "users" folder in the HD.
I then went to "Preferences>General>iTunes Music folder location" in iTunes and selected "Change" and then found the new location of iTunes Music folder I just moved.
I then went to my wife's profile on our Mac, and repeated the location change in her iTunes preferences.
I then went to File>Add to Library in iTunes and selected the above folderand iTunes imported everything (that had been in my iTunes) into her iTunes.
Don't know if PC is this user-friendly (probably not)... but perhaps this can lead you somewhere.
Powerbook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.8)  

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