Running iTunes on XP and OSX using same music folder?

Hi,
I'm just starting to use OSX and XP in almost equal amounts after using XP on my MBP almost exclusively for over a year. The big difficulty at the moment is with the fact that my music is all on my XP partition (NTFS) and therefore not set up under OSX in iTunes.
I was wondering if anyone has any experience setting up iTunes under both OS'es to point to the same music? Should I set up NTFS3G and just use iTunes under OSX as normal? Or if that is too risky, should I just set up iTunes in OSX to point to the music in read-only mode?
Any help with this much appreciated, as I really do not want to screw up my music collection, which at the moment stretches into the 50GB+ range.

Well as a user similar to you, i store all my music in OSX partition and iTunes point to the same music directory in both OSes. Of course, for Windows i use MacDrive. So far no problems occured for me. But as an advice just allow one instance of iTunes (Windows version in my case) to organize music folder, otherwise sometimes it messes things up.
I do not think it will create a problem in your case. Of course the safest method is to use an external disk with FAT partition.

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