10.6.8 Fine on one account, freezes on other?! Need help please!

Hi, I have 10.6.8 installed on one account on my hard drive and 10.6.8 installed on the other, and on one acccount, it boots up just fine -- on the other, it locks up at desktop about 5 seconds after my wallpaper have loaded. I can still move the mouse, but it usually ends up as the spinning beach ball. It froze even on 10.6.3 and I was only able to update it to x.x.8 from my *working* account. I tried resetting SMC, I even ran in safe mode and it STILL does it! I know there's virtually no way to downgrade to 10.5.8 (my last working version) so what can I do? I have a lot of important stuff on this account that I can't access from other accounts. What are my options? Help would be greatly appreciated!
This is on my Mac Pro 3,1. Nothing else boots at startup, really. This has me stumped and frustrated.
-M

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