Help with setting up a new user account

What is the solution to file sharing on the same computer with two separate User Accounts? I want to set up a new user account, but I want to be able to access the Documents, Music, Movies and Pictures folders, as well as others possibly in the original account. Is this easy to do, and/or possible without messing around too much with permissions and the like?
Thanks,
Mac

Setting up read only access for other users is pretty easy. Just change a few permissions and you're done. I'll show you how to do it if you like.
Setting up full read+write, well, that's a little trickier. It's because of how Mac OS X sets up permissions on new files and folders. By default, any new file or folder that is created gets full read and write permissions for the user that created it, and read-only for everyone else.
Changing permissions on the two users' home folders to that both users have full read+write for everything inside can be done, and it's not too hard. The problem is when new files are added - they will be read only for the other user. So the procedure has to be repeated again and again, every time a new file is created.
Having said that, it is possible to set up Access Control Lists on certain folders, so that anything that is created in to copied to the folder automatically gets read+write for both users. This is a little trickier to set up, but it can be done. I use it to share iMovie projects, and an iPhoto library between my and my wife's user accounts and it works well.
The latter solution requires entering some scary-looking Terminal commands. If you bro is scared to ask for help in web forums then he sounds likely to be scared of Terminal commands too. :/

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