How to easily migrate to another user

Due to incredibly long SBBOD for anything I do, I am forced to find a solution that would really rather have my teeth ripped out with any pain killers before I attempted.
I believe my user account is corrupt, and I should everything over to a new one. Short of tossing everything in the "Users/Shared" folder, how can I easily transfer one user to another?
Thanks for any help.

Since the issue is specific to your original user account, you can proceed in two ways. One is to log into your new account, make a list of the preference files (plists) located in /username/Library/Preferences/, including any in the ByHost subfolder, log back into the original account, move everything on that other account's list from the original account's Preferences folder into a newly created folder on the Desktop, log out and back in, and see if the problem goes away. If so, you can copy the ones in the Desktop folder (one at time) back into /Preferences/, restart, and see if the problem returns. If so, you've identified the corrupt/conflicting one. Continue with all of them until isolating the bad ones. That'll save you the trouble of resetting preferences.
The second way is much more detailed and I'll not burden you with the steps unless the above doesn't fix the issue.

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