Copy (clone) a user account

Hi,
I have a user account and want to clone it. I mean that everything must be the same. I only found this solution:
"+you have to enable the root account. once you do that you can log in as root and copy everything from one user account to another. Once that is done change the permissions on the files/folders you just copied (open terminal and type chown -R <new_name> /Users/<new_name>+"
Is this work and safe? Are there any better solution for this?

I want to see if you can help me. I have been searching high and low for an answer. I have a uswer account and apple compressor wont run properly. After there installs there are files missing per a white paper. Anyway, apple support told me to create another account and log into it and see if compressor is running. It works fine. Apple also told me to migrate everything over to the new account I created, but said they couldnt' tell me how since I was getting support for compressor/FCP studio. I have 10.4.11 and want to transfer all my preference and everything under my current user account to the new account I called admin for short. Can the terminal commands you gave this guy do that for me? If I can transfer everything, I would like to dump the old account, so I just have one. Let me know if you have any tricks.

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