Change location of Special Folders in Mac OS X 10.5

Hello,
I want to change the location of some of the Special Folders in Mac OS X 10.5. I am specially interested in changing the location of Documents, Images, Music, Videos and Downloads. In Mac OS X 10.4 it was easy to move at least all the special folders to other location or other hard drive. But in 10.5 i dont know how to do this. I would prefer to move those folders and not all the users folders.
I want to do this because i am using PC and Mac. I get my first Mac 3 month ago. And i am trying to get my documents in sync between PC and Mac, so i would like to use the same floder structure and location in PC and Mac.
I would appreciate a lot all the help you could give me. Thank you for your time,
Marcelo.

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