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Can this be done?
(Because it might be asked, the problems I've been having with this account are: any time the "Media Brownser" button is touched in MS Office, the Office app crashes [Office Support Communities says it's a problem with my user account] and other apps can't seem to add contextual menu items [Dropbox, Google Notifyer].)

I have previously confirmed that the errors are isolated to my user account by creating a new account. I've not been able to find a way to repair whatever it is that's wrong with my original account.
My hope was that there was a way to "restore" the keychain to a new account that would be duplicative of the old one, perhaps by deleting the old account, creating one that's identical (but empty) then restoring items to it selectively.

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