HP 7400c scanner software only works on initial admin account

I have G4 desktop on which I am setting up individual accounts to use an HP 7400c scanner. Now, the very first admin account I used to set the machine up and from which I created all accounts works perfectly with the HP provided scanner software drivers and programmes (HP Precision Scan Pro 3.3). However, when I log in as one of the other users (regardless of whether I have made that user an "admin" or not), the scanning programme crashes.
This seems like some kind of permissions problem, and while I have played around with changing permissions and so on, the same thing keeps occurring. I also tried installing the HP scanner software in a local user's application folder -- but the HP disc won't allow this: one can only proceed with installation of software by entering an admin user name and pwd, and the disc seems only willing to install the application in the main top level Applications folder.
Any suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Shankar
G5 Desktop, G4 Desktop, G3 Ti PB   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

I retract my question. It wasn't a permissions problem after all.
Not surprisingly, the problem turned out to be
the HP software which set up a Scanjet manager as a login application on those sub-accounts, leading the actual Precision Scan application to crash. Removing that from the login items in the Accounts preference pane solved the problem. Now, I simply have to figure out how to make the machine scan when I want it to do an OCR!
Shankar

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