Two ipods to one itunes?

how do i download music for two ipods on the same itunes? How can i do this without having my songs on theirs and their songs on mine? i'm just really confused and i'd apreciate you're help! I've had a nano for 3 weeks and cant use it yet!
THANK YOU!

There are 3 main methods for doing this, First tho just a caution, its highly recommended by apple you do not connect more than one iPOd at a time for syncing.
Method 3 is you just simply connect the iPods to the PC, this will load the EXACT same library to each iPOd
Method 1 and 2 are for connecting the iPods to one computer, but having separate music on each iPod, One involves creating 2 or more playlist, each one only having your songs in them, then setting the iPod to update only those playlist. the other method is to create 2 user accounts in windows. this is in more detail at the link below
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432

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OK.... I've ran into a problem and don't know how to proceed with this.
The 2nd user is set up with their ITunes account and we have successfully purchased a few songs.
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http://www.apple.com/support/ipodclassic/
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I'll try to make this clear.
I had one computer and one ipod set up on itunes. The computer ran on Windows XP.
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Message was edited by: mverza

Hi mverza
Yes you can use as many ipods as you like on differnet itunes libarys. As long as you manually manage your ipods and don't sync. You can put your purchased music on as many ipods as you like (as long as you manually manage your music and you connect to the computer you bought it from). You can transfer purchased music to your ipod for a maximum of 5 computers (so you can play music purchased music on only 5 computers) although apple have changed the rules so there is no file protection)
But see here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420 for more infomation.
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