Prevent iTunes on second user account from updating iPod

I was unable to find an answer to this question in a search, so I hope someone out there can help.
My wife and I have separate admin user accounts on our Mac. All our music is stored under my user account to which I have granted full access to all users. This allows us to manage our own songs and playlists on our respective iTunes without duplicating music files (she doesn't like metal and I don't like country).
The problem is the use of my iPod; I have it set up to automatically manage selected playlists from my iTunes. Occasionally, however, my wife opens iTunes when my iPod isn't mounted but in the cradle charging, resulting in the iPod being overwritten with the songs and playlists from her iTunes.
I've tried setting up her iTunes to manually manage playlists but this changes the same settings on my iTunes. I want to continue automatically managing my playlists because I have numerous smart playlists in my library.
Is there a way to prevent just one user's account from updating an iPod while the other does so automatically?
Many thanks,
B.

iPod agent is now PodPlus, and after installing it (bit of bother, as our entire network was in the process of collapsing at the same time!), I transferred all my songs to my PC. Worked really well. Much appreciated!
I tried to look for the other program, but the page couldn't be found. Thanks anyway!!

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