Using Itunes on multiple users (windows XP)

I have a computer and I have a lot of music I play in Itunes on my user but when a member of my family gets on their user name Itunes is empty, no music, how can I get it so Itunes has the music for all the users to listen too?
Dell 4600   Windows XP Pro   3.0 GHz Pentium 4, 512MB Ram, 80 GB Hard Drive, 128Mb 5200 Graphics Card,

You have to keep dragging it over into their library, see the very bottom of this webpage where the article tells you to repeat steps 6-8.
iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93195

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