Two windows user names, one library

Does anyone have any idea how to combat this issue? My wife and I both have seperate user names on our computer. Therefore we each have seperate iTunes library files. I have managed to get our shared music library in the "Public" folder so that we do not have duplicate songs on the computer. However, the problem arises with the iTunes library files. When I use iTunes it accesses my library file and when she uses iTunes it accesses her library. That means that if I add songs to my library, the song files will be stored in our shared "public" folder, but her library file will not know about them (they are part of MY library) and therefore she will not see that we have them available. Is there any way to get iTunes to access the public iTunes library file so that we can avoid this situation? Thanks.

You and the Mrs. would have to connect your iTunes Libraries to the same .itl file.
Have a look at this article in the Apple Knowledge Base for details on how to do so.
Not that this will mean you have identical Libraries: identical contents, identical playlists, identical ratings, identical comments, etc.

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