Sharing a library on a macbook pro between to Administrator access users on the same machine

I have just bought a new Macbook Pro ci7 15" I have merged with the Help of the Genius bar and Entire apple team 5 different libraries to make 1 mega library. We then moved it to the new machine. I use this machine for work and home. since mac mail does not use profiles I have been instructed to make 2 users on my machine. User 1 is for work and mail is defaulted & set to my Exchange server at work. User 2 is personal and is defaulted to my mobile me account. I want to have 1 copy on my hard-drive of the 50GB Music iTunes that I can access regardless of which user I am logged into my machine as. I use the same Apple ID for each of the iTunes login's on the Macbook Pro. Can anyone help or make some suggestions.
PS We have tried to share the folder, even move music to the user>share folder...

follow these instructions:
how to share music between different accounts on a single computer.

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