Opening Lightroom 3 twice (to work on other library)?

Hi
I've currently got LR3 open and it's exporting 2000+ images to JPG which I expect it to take an hour or so.
Is there anyway now to open another library (so they'd be two instances of LR3 OPEN)? I'm running win xp.
cheers
Rob

If you are using an OS that supports it, switch to another user and open up the other catalogue as that user. You will have to sort out file perms &etc.
[Later]
Upon re-reading your OP I see you are running Windows XP. So, the short answer is no, not on that same computer.

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