Two separate itune accounts on one computer...

My husband and I both have ipods and we have one computer that we share. The itunes software is downloaded to the same computer but we both have separate accounts as we both like different music. What I have noticed is that his songs tend to sync onto my ipod I don't want that and I'm sure he doesn't want my songs to download onto his ipod. Is there a way to get around this? He's got a gazillion songs already in the library where I'm just getting started with mine. I thought that once I had my own account I would have my own library not have to share with him. Please help as I am new to itunes and the itune store purchases. Thanks in advance!

There is an Apple article How to use multiple iPods with one computer which may help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432

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