Sharing a music library also shares podcasts??

My wife and I have our own logins for this computer. She has her own iTunes, although we share the same Music folder. That way we can listen to some of the same songs without having duplicates on our machine. Anyway, here is the problem: Because we share the same music library, iTunes thinks we automatically want to share the same podcasts, which is not true. Whenever I do a "Add to libarary" from the file menu, it pulls her podcasts and puts them under mine.
Is there a way to share the same library of music, but NOT share the same podcasts? The current method, if I don't intervene, will attempt to put her podcasts on my iPod.
Thanks!

NEVERMIND

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