Two users sharing same library AGAIN!

Hello everybody,
we have different accounts on one i Mac and shared ONE Itunes library so far but after installation of ITunes 9, this does not work anymore. On Iphoto we worked around the problem by creating a virtual drive on which the library is located, but I´m afraid this does not work with Itunes. Any Ideas?

I checked the Aperture license agreement and the word "library" is not mentioned in the agreement so that shouldn't be the problem. Have you called Apple Technical Support to discuss? Have you provided feedback to Apple as this would seem to be a bug, not an intentional limitation? http://www.apple.com/feedback/aperture.html
Just a shot in the dark but I wonder if you will have success if you both use an identical /home/library/preferences/com.apple.Aperture.plist file. The database changed in Aperture 3 from Aperture 2 and it may be that the database is now storing more information about the system than before. Sorry I can't debug as I only have one Aperture licence serial number.

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