Guest Account Setup - ISSUES!

Hello,
I recently bought a new iMac 20' with leopard pre-installed. I want to set up a guest account for my roommates and guests to use the computer. Each time i try to set up the guest account from system preferences I get the spinning ball (i call it the beach ball of death). Force quitting system preferences causes programs not to load afterwards. When I shut down or reboot, a blue screen just flickers endlessly.
I have tried repairing permissions through disk utility. I have also tried the most recent combo update. Any other ideas? i would love to have a guest account instead of people using my account on my brand spanking new iMac, which i love already.
Thanks in advance,
Curt

Problem Solved!
I just followed the very good description at this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8130823&#8130823
which solved my problem. Guest account up and running again!
It happened to me also, on my imac and my MacBook Air.
It seems that user account migration somehow confuses the "guest user" machinery, which totally trashes securityd which dies of sudden death and from then on nothing works on the computer.
The solution is to do the following in System Preferences:
0. Your system guest account must be disabled (it already is if you have the described symptoms).
1. Create new standard account with name "guest" and short name "guest".
IMPORTANT: short name must be "guest" - OS will suggest "guest1", but you must edit that into "guest".
2. Enable system guest account in System Preferences (check the "Allow guests to log into this computer" switch). It will work now that "guest" name is taken.
This action will create user account with short name "guest1" with all the properties of guest (clean-up after logout etc.).
3. Completely delete standard user "guest", which you created in step 1 (check "delete all data and folder now").
4. Disable system guest account (uncheck the switch).
5. Right-click on system guest account icon and choose "Advanced" or whatever (there is only one menu item anyway) and change short name from "guest1" to "guest".
6. Enable system guest account.
Voila. You now have working guest account (well, I have it, and hopefully you will, too)...
P.S. I am not sure whether you need to log-in/out/restart between steps. I remember I did some of that dance, but probably it is not necessary...

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