How can I run a gui app from an su shell?

Hello,
I login to my mac as a non-admin account. I then open a terminal and su to my admin account for anything requiring it. I am trying to run a gui app from the terminal window, but get this error, and the app does not open:
$ /usr/local/bin/wireshark
2011-08-14 06:54:29.327 defaults[18406:903]
The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleAquaColorVariant) does not exist
2011-08-14 06:54:29.346 defaults[18407:903]
The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleHighlightColor) does not exist
./sync_osx_look.sh: line 40: gtkrc: Permission denied
(process:18396): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
(wireshark-bin:18396): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
(wireshark-bin:18396): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
I know I can "switch user" but this is cumbersome as it requires typing a password each time, and I need to have applications side-by-side for easy access and testing. Any thoughts?
Thanks.

I use LaunchAsRoot to run GUI apps as the root user, while logged in to my admin account.
Another way is to use Applescript. Here's what I do to run Console as root:
do shell script "/Applications/Utilities/Console.app/Contents/MacOS/Console > /dev/null 2>&1 &" with administrator privileges

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