itunes drm questions

[joecool]

I've never really understood what you can and can't do with music purchased from iTunes. I'm hoping somebody here can fill in the details. Background:

We have five iPods and three computers (all running WinXP SP3). Everyone has user accounts on all the machines. My wife and I restrict our iTunes purchases to our own computers, but the kids jump around a lot - if one of the computers is unavailable for some reason they'll just go to another one and make purchases there. This has become a syncing and backup nightmare. Here are my questions:

1) Is it possible to sync multiple iPods to a single user account on a single machine (and get all the stuff you purchased)?
2) If one user on a machine purchases songs, can the other users sync those songs to their iPods (using their accounts)?
3) Is it possible to sync a single iPod to multiple machines (and get all the stuff you purchased)?
4) If I purchase and download music from several machines, is there any way to copy/move them all to a single machine?

For all of the above, what are the limitations on performing these tasks?

Thanks in advance!

Joe

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

1) Yes it is possible. Should work automatically.
2) If the songs are DRM free then yes, if not then now.
3) You can if you have "Manually Manage Music" selected.
4) iTunes 9 supports transferring music between machines as long as it's the same account (I believe).