Ratings for multiple iPods

I have one computer (Windows XP) where I keep all my music for my iPod, and I have two iPods that I sync with this machine; one is mine, one belongs to my son. I want to be able to prevent his rating changes from overwriting my ratings for songs, because when he changes one of my favorite songs from 5-stars to 3-stars, then he syncs with the computer, it updates the song in iTunes to 3-stars, and then next time I sync MY iPod, my 5-star song suddenly becomes a 3-star song. How can I prevent our ratings from overwriting each other??? I either want to disable ratings from his iPod from getting synced, or to ensure that MY iPod controls the ratings. HELP!

The only way to get around this is to create a separate Windows account for your son to use. You can move your music library to a public folder (like the root of the C:\ drive) and both use the same music, but your different libraries will have different ratings associated with the same music files. I don't know how clear that is to you, but let me know how it goes and I can clarify if needed.

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a) Sharing a single iTunes library and or user account or
b) Creating multiple user accounts.
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Sharing a Library and/or User Account
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Choosing the update option "Sync Music - Selected playlists" allows you to create a playlist specifically for the iPod and drag the tracks you want into it. If you tire of the list and want to change it, you just add or remove the songs you don't want. The ones you take out out remain in the library to be used some other time if you choose. You can read more about playlists at these links:
iTunes: Creating playlists of your favorite songs
How to create a Smart Playlist with iTunes
Or you can choose to update any or all of the iPods manually and just drag whatever content you want to them: Managing content manually on iPod
Loading the iPod shuffle differs slightly but it can still be used with the others, for details have a look at this page:
Loading songs onto iPod shuffle - Windows
It's also possible to have multiple libraries in a single account. To create or access a second (or more) library, hold down the Option key (or Shift key in Windows) when launching iTunes 7. In the resulting dialogue you will get the option to create a new library or navigate to the other Library.
Note: You can only have one Library open at a time and iTunes will default to the last library opened if you don't use the keyboard command to choose one. This can prove tricky when using multiple iPods, if you don't use the keyboard command you can risk syncing to the wrong library:
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