Shared Metadata in Windows Vista

Question

When I want to apply a metadata template in lightroom on my iMac, I am presented the full collection of xmp metadata templates generated mostly with Photoshop.
When I try the same maneuver using Lightroom on my Windows Vista laptop, LR appears to be generating and accessing only those templates generated while using LR. Members of the Photoshop collection are not shown.
LR preferences do not appear to include choice of path to metadata templates (or did I miss that?).
Any insights/suggested solutions welcome.

Answer 1

I did this quite successfully on our old family PC with Windows 2000 and iTunes 7.4. All 4 had own Windows accounts. iTunes was set up for each user to use a shared folder to store the music files. This way everyone could have an own iTunes library with own playlists, evaluations etc, but all music was accessible to everyone, though after adding music with one account others need to include add the shared folder again in the library to add new music into own library.
The same works now on our new family PC with Vista and iTunes 7.5 after copying the Music files, iTunes library files for each user and defining the new shared music folder location in iTunes. To be able to listen to music bought from iTunes Music Store I had to authorize the new computer, and I also deauthorized the old one before getting rid of it so that I don't keep one additional computer authorized forever for no reason.
However, one thing doesn't work like it did on Win2000 and I haven't found an acceptable solution yet:
We have bought music from iTunes MS using two different accounts, mine and my daughter's. The first time I try to play something bought by my daughter I need to authorize the computer using her Apple ID. Then the song plays and synhronizes with iPod ok.
But next time someone else wants to play any of the songs bought by my daughter, he/she is required to authorize the computer again. And next time I do the same, I'll have to do it again. After each authorization it says that I have only 1 of 5 authorizations used. So each authorization cancels previous authorizations done using other accounts on the same computer.
I might even accept using 4 of 5 computer authorizations for each user of the same computer, but iTunes doesn't give such option.
I've considered setting up a shared quest account for everyone for using iTunes, but then I would lose personal iTunes libraries.
Any better ideas?