10.4.10 and secondary account

Hi,
Like many people, 10.4.10 has screwed up my MacBook Pro (though works fine on my PPC Mac Mini).
I didn't interrupt the installation so did what was asked but it still messed it up.
I tried repairing disk permisions, restarting many times, installed the Combo update, cleaned the cache ... all to no avail.
But the weird thing is, it seems to work ok on one account (where I originally installed the update), and on the other account it constantly asks for permission to use the previous keychain. Each accept (Mail asks about 10 times) takes several minutes - and it is maybe 30-60 minutes torture before the Mac becomes usable again. Close Mail and restart it and ... it asks the same questions again ... aagghh!!!
Is there any logical reason why it could work on one account and not the other? (both are admin accounts).
(Next step is to try the Archive/Install to backup to 10.4.9. But thanks Apple, I already lost a day trying to make my laptop usable again).
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Is there any logical reason why it could work on one account and not the other? (both are admin accounts).
Yes. Corruption or conflict, usually WRT to preferences. Two ways to attack the problem.
1. Run Preferential Treatment and verify/repair user and system preferences. If that doesn't do the trick, delete the flaky account, selecting to save the data—creates a disk image of the entire account in /Users/Deleted Users. Recreate the account, using the same username/password combo, log into it, mount the saved image, and slowly transfer everything back to their appropriate places, except the Preferences folder. Just copy it to the Desktop, open it, duplicate the new Preverences folder, and slowly move a few plist files into the new one, log out and back in, until you resolve the conflict. Note that you may have to reset some preferences.
2. Run Preferential Treatment and verify/repair user and system preferences. If that doesn't do the trick, move the Preferences folder to the Desktop, log out and back in, then do the replacement trick. Effectively, that's what Conflict Catcher did in the pre-OS X days.

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