Migration Assistant - two accounts

I bought a MacBook Pro for my wife and migrated her old account to the new notebook. I inadvertently set up the new system in a different name than that was on her old system (maiden vs married name). Therefore I now have to two accounts on the new system and really wanted one. The old account has all the old apps and not all the new stuff. Whereas, i can't access her itunes music library, etc on the new account. Is there a way to rename the new system and combine to the two or access files, etc from the old and bring over?

I've got the same problem. I set up a "new" account name (used 'Bob' instead of 'Robert') when prompted by my brand new Mac Pro 3.2 Ghz, then migrated all my stuff from my old Mac. I ended up with two accounts on my new system.
'Bob' account has none of my files. 'Robert' account has my files, iTunes lib., etc. but does not have full administrator privileges. for example, today I had to log out of 'Robert' and back into 'Bob' in order to have privileges to update the Mac OS.
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