How do I transfer files to another user account?

As you can tell from the thread title I'm completely new to all things Mac.  Please forgive my ignorance and this long winded post.
So I setup my new 27"  iMac, installed Lion 10.7.? and applied all the updates (to 10.7.4).  Then I installed MS Office 2011 for Mac and downloaded all the updates for it. All went well and was refreshingly simple.  I did all of this thinking that I would need Office installed to make the migration from my PC's Outlook files to work properly.  Then i ran the migration assistant and it worked just as advertised.  Little did I know that it was creating another user account and it's folders to put the files into.  I know, read before jumping into things!  Well all of my files are in the new account that the migration assistant created and all appears well in that regard.  The only glitch is the emails all went into the Mac client, but they are there, my accounts are up and running and looks like it did what it's supposed to do.
What I need to do is copy or move everything on the new user account over to the original account I setup.  What would be the best route to take?  I transferred about 125 gig of data in total.  I'm thinking that a fresh install and starting over is the route to go, but it's my understanding that a clean install isn't real easy on Lion and above.
I can already tell that when I get everything situated that I'm really gonna be cussing myself for not going to Mac 5 years ago when I started to.  The graphics on this new iMac is amazing!
So what are my options?  Figure out a clean install?  Or move/copy the folders and nuke the 2nd account?

You can reinstall Lion by starting up in Disk Recovery mode. Hold command-R during startup. You will need a fast internet connectiona as a re-download of Lion is required.
Once you have re-installed Lion, you can proceed to migrate your PC data using Setup Assistant.
Moving and copying your files will require an external drive with permissions ignored (that is the default for OSX).

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