How to move my user account to new SSD?

I just received my new mid-2011 27" iMac with the 1TB HDD and the 256GB SSD. It came from the factory with the /Users directory on the SSD, which is not a good idea (at least for me) due to the size of my iTunes library, movies, documents and other stuff. Can I move /User/"myUserAccount" from /Volumes/Macintosh HD to /Volumes/Macintosh HD 2 (as the HD is named)? Surely this is possible, but I don't know the correct way to do this. Any help would be appreciated. And if anyone has general advice on how to properly use the SSD I would appreciate that too. (Stuff like what to put where, etc.)
Thanks!

Leave your user account's alone!!!!!! All you need to move are the data files. What takes up a lot of space is music, photos & movies. If you move those libraries to your internal HD that will take care of things for you. Here are Apples instructions for moving them to external HD's however you can use your internal HD the same way.
iTunes: library on EHD
iPhoto: How to move the Library to EHD
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<#
.SYNOPSIS
A brief description of the Copy-ADUser function.
.DESCRIPTION
A detailed description of the Copy-ADUser function.
.PARAMETER GivenName
A description of the GivenName parameter.
.PARAMETER Surname
A description of the Surname parameter.
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A description of the Template parameter.
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.NOTES
Additional information about the function.
#>
[CmdletBinding()]
Param (
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[string]
$Surname,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[string]
$GivenName,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[string]
$Template
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<#
.SYNOPSIS
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A description of the GivenName parameter.
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A description of the Template parameter.
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Additional information about the function.
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.EXAMPLE
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.EXAMPLE
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[CmdletBinding()]
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[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[string]
$Surname,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[string]
$GivenName,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
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[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[string]
$Surname,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[string]
$GivenName,
[string]
$Organization,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[string]
$Template
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