Sharing Downloaded Files between 2 accounts on the same system

My wife and I each have separate accounts set up on our iMAC G5. We both have .MAC accounts, but only use one account to download songs into iTunes. In an earlier version of iTunes, I set up both accounts to point to the same iTunes library file, which is located in a shared directory. I recently got an iPOD for my wife. The problem is that when she is logged into her account on the iMAC and opens iTunes, she does not see any of the songs that I've downloaded from the iTunes Store.
I have logged into her account on the iMAC, opened iTunes, and "Authorized" her "computer" to use my iTunes account. Now I can see the purchased songs from in iTunes running in her account, but those songs cannot be loaded into playlists and downloaded into her iPOD.
Our cars both have iPOD interfaces that require playlists to have specific names. She wants her own playlists and I don't want to have to rename my playlists, create new ones for her, download them to her iPOD, change the names on her playlists, then rename mine back to their original names. I just want to let her maintain her own playlists.
I've installed the most recent version of iTunes (v7.0(70)) and it didn't change the behavior at all.
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2 GB,iSight, WD 160GB USB, WD 250GB USB

Instead of read-only access to each other's iTunes directories, I followed instructions posted elsewhere on this forum and have ITunes in both accounts pointing to the same physical file. From my account, I can see all the songs, both the ones loaded from CDs and the ones downloaded from ITunes (using my ITunes account). From her account, she can see the songs I loaded from CD, but not any of the songs I've downloaded.
If I share my ITunes library, then she can open the shared file and see all of the songs, downloaded as well as those from CDs. However, if she selects any of the downloaded songs, she cannot put them into playlists or otherwise copy them to her IPod.
She doesn't have an ITunes account. Her ITunes is set up to use my account and is one of the two authorized "Computers" for my account. I thought that going into ITunes and authorizing my ITunes-account would have solved the problem, but it doesn't.
I'm running the latest ITunes (Macintosh) software, version 7.0 (7.0).

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