Setup 2 accounts, changed their names and now I have 4!!

I set up two accounts in Leopard (Call them X & Y); one a user account and the other an Administrator. I changed their names to Admin and User for convieniance but recently could not log in to either. When I loaded up the change password program on the install disk it tells me that i have 4 accounts: the original 2 (x & y) PLUS another two with the names Admin and User!
When I logged in as Root I can see that X & Y have all my data and my renamed accounts are empty. Strangely further, my login page ONLY displays the renamed accounts. So it looks like I login to say User, with user p/w and endup being taken to the old "Y" account.
As well, in the account list on the password change program i can see an aditional account called "iphonemux". I presume this is something to do with my ipad and itunes?
Hows has this happened with the accounts? Does anybody have any suggestion?

Unfortunately, it's not that easy to change short names. Try using the steps from this support article
attempt to rename your Home directory?
1. In the Finder, go to the /Users folder.
2. Locate the new home directory, which bears the users' short name.
3 .Add "_new" to the new home directory's name.
4. Rename the old home directory to the user's correct short name.
5. Log out and back in with the affected user account.
Let us know.
-mj

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