Sharing music with Wife

My wife and I both have iPods and both have seperate iTunes Accounts on differnet computers. How can I add my Wife's iTunes purchased music to my iPod? When connecting her iPod to my laptop it says that her music is in a differnet library and do I wish to use her library or my library, but no options to combine both. Not sure how to get past this with out erasing one or the others music files. Help!

This should help; it will apply to different iTunes libraries in different accounts as well as different computers:
Using iPod with multiple computers

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    I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Here is my problem. I have 5 kids that each have their own iPod/iPhone. They all use the same Windows 7 PC, each one with a different user account. I need a way to be able to add new songs to the main library, and then have them show up under all 5 accounts automatically.
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