Getting default Public Folder names again

I just installed Leopard and updated to 10.5.4. I set up two users both as Admins. When I set up File Sharing, both user's public folders, were already installed, and were named "[username]'s Public Folder". This was great as they both showed up with their different respective names when accessed.
I then changed the User Names of both Admin accounts. The second user Admin account automatically changed the Public Folder's name (in the file sharing section), to match the new User Name but the first Admin account did not, retaining the original User Name I had given the main Admin account. Trying in vain to get it to change to match, (you can't rename the public folder there), I removed it from the shared folder field and added it back. While successful, it now only has the name "Public" rather than "[username]'s Public Folder".
Can anyone help me get the original OS default name back again?

I see. as I said I don't know how to do it properly but you can try the follwoing (admittedly clumsy) workaround.
Rename your public folder. It's not quite easy to do actually because that folder is protected by a deny delete ACL and you won't be able to rename it without some extra work.
First run the following command in terminal ( from the same account as that Public folder) to remove the ACL.
chmod -N ~/Public
You can now rename it as you like. Let's say you call it
Joe's Public folder
(or whatever). You can put the deny delete ACL back if you want to protect that folder from accidental deletion as it was by default. to do that run the following terminal command
chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/"Joe's Public folder"
keep the quotes in the command. I'm not sure if there is any downside to doing this. It might be that the name of the Public folder is hard coded somewhere and renaming it will have some unintended consequences. I tested it on one of my accounts and everything seems to work fine there but something might still come up later. If it does you can always rename the folder back to Public.

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