Using an iPod with multipule iTunes libraries

I'll just start with this, about everywhere in my house is surround sound speakers and my family decided it was getting very very annoying to dig around the hundreds of CDs we have for different occasions... you know, party music, holiday music, etc. So my family decided that we would go and buy either one or two iPod Classics probably 80GB each... Now are house is defiantly compatible with the iPod for playing but where my real question comes in is it possible to have one iPod to 4 different iTunes libraries. See each of my family members has there own collection of music in iTunes, three of our family had minis and the other a nano, so we are in need of some new iPods. Anyway I was wondering is it possible to combine all 4 of our iTunes libraries so that we each have each others music, and that when we sync the iPod Classic regardless of which of the 4 computers it may be it will be able to fully sync as if each computer was its home computer.
Thanks

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