How to move an iTunes account

My situation is that I have several users with their own accounts, each with their own iTunes account and their own iOS devices, on my OS10.6.8 iMac.
I would like to move the iTunes accounts and contents to new user accounts on the same computer, and I'm looking for the best way.
As a result of various issues and general bugginess, I've realised I need to do a clean install of 10.6. Some of the issues I'm trying to get rid of are system level, others are account specific.
The two oldest accounts (started in 10.4) can no longer access MAC help, sometimes the DOCK process goes crazy and uses up all available CPU and RAM, and mobile me has come to a grinding halt. Not to mention kernel panics, and system events which log 1000's of error messages per second because some process has too many filkes open, and some process I can't track down which tries to spawn itself several times a second.  @!!$#^!.
I've checked and don't think any of this is caused by iTunes.
I have everything backed up 3+ times: Time Machine, a bootable disk image, some dmg's of the user accounts, and a SuperDooper disk image. I have all the install disks and licence keys.
What I would like some advice and comment on is: how do I move the iTunes accounts and content from the old users accounts on this "version" of the system to new users accounts in the  next version of the System?
I could use migration assistant and import the previous user files into the new accounts, but I don't want to import ALL the user settings. But if I do that, will the purchased music files be useable in the new account, and will syncing with the existing IOS devices still work?
I could use migration assistant to set up the old accounts on the new system, authorise both accounts with he same iTunes account, and copy the user files over. Then kdeleauthorise and delete the old account. Same questions as above. Sounds less risky this way.
Is there a better way?
Thanks!
( Once I get this the system clean and stable with 10.6.8, I plan to migrate to iCloud and Lion. But I really don't want to migrate first, and then try to fix issue in an OS I am just learning )

SlippySlope wrote:
Were you saying that you have two user accounts (one one the old Mac and one on the new Mac) or two Apple IDs with your music?
Read the original post. The user used Migration Assistant to copy files from an old computer to a new one. This creates a new computer account with the old content. The user then had two accounts on the new computer with content the user wished to merge.

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