How to transfer stuff from 1 admin user to a newly created admin user

Question

Hi:
2 weeks ago I bought a beand new Macbook pro 13" non retina display which ran Mountain Lion. What I did was to make 4 partitions to match what is on time machine backps of my previous 2007 Blackbook. So I did a restore and now my new MBP was running Lion. Quickly that was solved when the app store dl'd and installled Mountain Lion.
Seems perfect but all my preferences from the older blackbook seemed to mess up my trackpad. Couldn't do the wonderful scrolling that my iphone 4s does with ease. It behaved like an old mouse with none of the fancy features we've gotten so used to which worked beautifully onn the old Macbook. Well did an ML os reinstall with no results. My bluetooth apple mouse works like the trackpad. I played with the buttone in the 3 screens all to no avail and tried to match them to the setting in guest acct for the trackpad.
Funny thing but when I'm logged into guest and the trackpad works beautifully.
All the OS installs on the 3 partitions 1 Lion and the other 2 ML, the trackpad works beautifully.
Thought that my original admin login user account has been corrupted with old lion and whatever I have before so it may never get back to normal. it was suggested that I create another admin account in a different name which I have done . The logic was that all my files from the original admin user get moved or copied. then when everything works in the new user, just delete the original user and rename it what the old admin user was called. Sounds easy but what happens to the library files in a copy/ move? do they just infect the new user with the same bad prefernces that caused the original problem?That's the easy part. After that things get dicey. Do I just copy all the files from 1 user to another. Do I share all the files in my main (flawed) admin acct?
I thought that maybe my main old admin user acct had too many old preferences so many were deleted up to the week I did the restore. Easy to do and any weird non .plist acct were deleted. Dis this with the apple preferences only.
Any idea how I proceed from going beyong the creation of the new user account.
Ted

Answer 1

I have discovered the solution and it involves an issue I suspected. After the restore of my old Time Machine Lion files to my new MBP running ML, the restore restored my computer back to Lion. After an install of ML, my computer worked perfectly except the fancy Scroll and zoom featured we all love from the trackpad. Ha already installed ML on other partitions and the trackpad worked perfectly on them.  Even the guest login's trackpad worked perfectly but not the main admin account.
First thought was to create a new admin account and copy everything from the old admin to the new admin and then delete the old admin account. Hated the idea because all files had to be copied rather than moved.
So what was left to do. I had thought of deleting all the apple preferences from the library and replace them with the contents of the library on another partition in ML. First I deleted old preferences many of which were old Lion preferences. That didn't solve the issue.
I forgot that Lion and ML HIDE the user library so I was working on the wrong library. Discovered the Terminal command "chflags nohidden ~/Library" and I chose to reveal the user library on a ML partition.
Solution:
I booted into another ML partition. I guess that I could have booted into the new admin user account and changed the permissions  to access the old admin users Library But I chose to boot
from another ML partition: copy ALL the com.apple. XXXXX.plist files and the folder  BY Host. It has special hidden files. Other  way is to copy the Preferences folder we'll say into the Desktop.
I then proceeded to delete ALL the com.apple…….plist files and the Host folder into the trash. Then I copied all the apple.com…plist files and the Host folder and then rebooted. And now my wonderful Trackpad works as mountain Lion intended it to work.
I'm leaving this solution because there's someone else in the MacWorld with the same issue.
Ted