Storing music on Firewire drive and sharing it with Win2000 laptop too

I just got a new 24"iMac and managed to transfer most of my music over from my g4 with a backup of my library. Now, I also have a 160gb Firewire drive that is empty and would like to make a second library of music of just all my cd's around 350 or so and be able to access this from my iMac and also share this music with a Panasonic Toughbook laptop running Windows 2000 with a 100gb hard drive. Anyone done similar / same thing ?? I looked at other posts for an hour or so and just got more confused LOL and was hoping for a direct answer.

as long as the music is on the external drive it does not matter what type of computer you use to access as long as each computer runs itunes. when activating itunes in either os hold down the alt/option button and it will give you the option to access a different library. the complete directions are in itunes help on your computer.

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