Moving to a new user on my iMac

I've been having problems with Microsoft Word on my iMac (that is running Lion). All sorts of error messages pop up and the program is basically useless to me. In speaking with microsoft they did some troubleshooting and couldn't figure it out, but then suggested I try creating a new  user on my iMac and seeing if I had any problems with word under the new user. That solved the problem. So i'd like to move my iTunes, iPhoto, files, etc to a new user on my iMac and then delete the old user account. I've found a lot of info online about transfering a user account to another mac, but i'm not wanting to transfer my user account. I just want to set a whole new user and start fresh, but bring over my iTunes library, iPhoto, etc. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Jeff

I moved the Microsoft User Data folder to the desktop and deleted the two files you mentioned and then opened Word but it didn't fix it. I get all sorts of things that pop up in Word:
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Private Sub Document_Open()
'Thus_001'
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