Newbie idiot sharing question

Hi folks, I'm probably being really dumb but am having trouble doing something that is probably incredibly simple. I want to access itunes music and iphoto libraries across two accounts on the same machine, a white macbook running OS 10.5.5. I've done the obvious things - enabled file sharing and so forth but nothing seems to work.
It might be easier to just have one log-in with everything, but can you get all the files from one log-in onto another? Just really dim adn any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks

[Have a look here for the iTunes answer|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203]
I'd assume the iPhoto version is pretty similar.
The search function here will get you a long way with this.

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