One Library for all users on the system - Sharing?

Hello.
I'm using iTunes 9.0.3 on OS X 10.6.2. On this system, there are TWO users, one for my wife, one for me. I'd like to "merge" the seperate iTunes libraries, so that there's only one shared library for all users.
How could this be achieved?
Searching the web, I found a writeup on [dougscripts.com by Paul Whitey|http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/sharedlib.php], which basically explains to move ~/Music/iTunes to /Users/Shared/iTunes and making sure that there's an alias in ~/Music pointing to /Users/Shared/iTunes. It also explains, that the ownership of the files & folders is to be changed so, that all users have read & write access. This then looks like this on my system:
!http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6223/fileinfowithbothusersha.png!
-> http://yfrog.com/5yfileinfowithbothusershap
It works good - both "alex" and "sandra" can work with these files (ie. move them, rename them, change ID3 tags).
But see those:
!http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/2183/fileinfowithonlyalexhav.png! !http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/7807/fileinfowithonlysandra4.png!
--> http://yfrog.com/jufileinfowithonlyalexhavp & http://yfrog.com/j2fileinfowithonlysandra4p
That's from files which sandra or alex have added later on. Only the one who added these files can modify them (which is of course correct, if you have a look at the file permissions).
How would you go about having only ONE iTunes database on the system? Simply putting the iTunes Db on a shared folder doesn't work well, as can be seen above. Always having to fiddle around with the file permissions isn't exactly comfortable…
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Alex

Hm. PowerTunes crashs, when I make it Share my library. I pasted the crash report at http://pbox.ca/13gwy
Since I cannot know how/if would work (because of the crash…), please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it also just move the files to /Users/Shared and set permissions correctly? Wouldn't I need to keep on running PowerTunes from time to time, or is it "run once and forget" application (if it works)?

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