Running two copies of iTunes on one MAC

I have a couple of different user sign-ons on my MAC, I need to be able to access iTunes on both, but I want them both to share the same library. Is this possible?
I tried setting up iTunes for the second user and it had no songs, so I tried to reroute the access back to the original users library. Well after changing the access to the original user, I was able to get the songs in the second iTunes.
However, now the iTunes from the original user ID can't find most of the songs even though I did not change their locations!
So I have 2 questions.
1) Can you even run two iTunes under different User IDs that can access the same iTunes library? If so, how?
2) If you can't, how do I get my original iTunes to see all my songs again without having to go through them one at a time? I have over 17,000 songs!
Thanks!

This should help:
iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer
Note that when it says "publicly accessible location", it needs to be a place where everyone has read and write access. The most common such place is the Shared folder in the Users folder, but you can place the music elsewhere if you change the access permissions manually (don't start tinkering with permissions unless you're confident you know what you're doing and can reverse things if they get messed up).

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