Two users, four iPods, one Library

I should qualify this by saying that I am a recent switcher. I have played with my Mac(s) some but I want to make sure I do this the right way.
My wife and I want to each have our own login to the computer so our settings and things stay independent of one another but we want to share a single iTunes Library.
In windows, this always trashed things pretty bad until we reached the point that the library was part of my login and she would login as me to manage her songs and sync her ipod.
Are we in the same boat on a Mac? What is the best way to go about setting this up?

I spoke too soon. I tried out the steps in the article and it did not work.
I copied the Music folder from my Home folder out to the Hard drive. I then set my iTunes preferences to change to this location. But then my library looks empty. If i then import they show up.
When i log in as my wife, I change her preferences to the same place but it is empty. I add the folder and the songs show up but when I import something as either user, it imports it to the home/music folder and not the new one and each user can't see the others music.
I may not be explaining it right and probably need to spend some more time working on it. But it looks like it wants to keep using the home folder location.

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