Two users/two devices on one Mac

I have a MacBook Pro and an iPhone. I bought my mother an iPad. Her older iMac cannot be upgraded anymore and can't upgrade iTunes to be able to synch/download apps for her iPad. All apps have been purchased through her .Mac iTunes account directly onto her iPad. It has never been synched to a computer yet. How do I backup/synch her iPad using my MacBook keeping her stuff separate from mine? I have already created a new user for her on my MacBook.

You may be onto something. Contacted my nephew who actually picked up the iPad2 on the day they were released and he set stuff up and downloaded some apps for her. He told me he did connect it to his computer for initial startup. I think he created a user for her, too, on his Mac. Anyway, we got to thinking that the iTunes Library that it created on his Mac is the library that is being referred to in the dialog box that came up. He zipped the library and put it in Dropbox for me. Do you think if I dragged this "Library" file to her home folder and reconnected the iPad that it would sync? She has no music so I'm not worried about losing, just one big data file from Pocket Money that I have worked hard to get all her finances organized with. Anything else we lose can easily be replaced (Contacts is the only other thing that would be trouble, but we can all just email our contact v-card back to her and rebuild).

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Niel, thanks for your reply. i cannot get your thread to open, i will try again later. I see it as http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1860 so let me know if not.
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I have a 97 year old mother in law that tries to stay current with her children. She's been using an ipad for over a year. She has a older mac that no longer can be upgraded. She recently purchased an iphone 4s and would like to be able to sinc only her contacts, calendars and emails using the cloud but separately from mine. This way she can hopefully be able to keep only her stuff syncing together. Her contact list is relatively small compared with mine. She would like to be able to tell Siri "Call Jim" and not have 10 Jims appear (because I may have a bunch of Jims) that she must select from.
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Zevoneer,
I talked to a mac cust rep and he game me the same article. I did everything step by step but when I open up itunes in my acct or my wifes acct, I can only see music bought with each acount respectively. Do I need to import libraries? I just want to be able to share our music on itunes.
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