Sharing IPhoto among multiple users on ONE computer. Question about article

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304890
Does anyone have an idea why the article doesn't mention using users/shared instead of creating a separate partition. It seems much easier, though from some of the other posts it looks like Permissions on users/shared may not work properly.
This seems awfully complicated for the machine that advertises itself as easy to use. It was much easier to share files on Windows.

I have followed the famous Apple article and have created a disk image with permissions ignored and the iphoto library in it. But in order to have the other user access the disk image, I have put it in the users/shared folder. As a result, when trying to access the library from the other user account, it says that I do not have enough rights to access the library. Any thoughts ?
Thank you.
Cesco

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