Sharing Apps and Songs with family members

I've just set my 2 kids up with their own apple ID's so that they can buy music that they like, instead of only having access to my wife an my music and apps. My wife thinks this was a bad idea, since now if we like songs that they download, we will have to buy them again, instead of before how we had everything load into one apple ID.
Before, our home iMac always had all our songs and apps, and if anyone wanted them, they had to sync their device to that one computer, or be tied into that apple ID account on the app/store. We were able to run everything thru our AppleTV that way also. Now they are independent of this account, can we still somehow tie our family accounts together, and share stuff amungst ourselves (similar to how we are still able to be logged into the same iCloud account, and share Calendars and Contacts)?
Sharing and being connected as a family on iCloud, has been a disappointment, and not as user friendly as it used to be when there was a iDisc, and MobileMe. I'm starting to feel like Apple is taking a downslide on thinking this thru more thoroughly...
Thoughts?

If you are talking about *all* of the organizing that you have done (captions, collections/albums, tags, notes, GPS locations, version sets, stacks, creations, stars), then yes, the other person would have to have PSE7.
If you are talking about tags and captions, then this information can be written to files* and then read by many other programs. In the organizer, select File->Write Tags and Properties Info ... Then, send a copy of these photos to other people, and most software will read those tags and captions.
Album/Collection membership, version sets, stacks, creations can not be sent this way. Creations can be saved as .pdf file and sent.
* — this command fails for some raw files, and also on rare occasions fails for .jpg files. For PSE6 and PSE7, John R. Ellis has created a tool that offers a workaround.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3999
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Sorry for the delay in replying. I've not yet tried these.
I'm still depressed due to the loss of all that I stored in my IPod Touch. At least apple should have programmed it so that the apps and data get deleted only after getting a confirmation from me (only when I click yes). The current software programmed seem to be stupid because I just I clicked on Forgot password and that's not a crime so that it removes all the data.
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