One of the accounts will not open

Having been engrossed in his MSN Messenger my son restarted our iBook after a complete freeze, but from then on has been unable to open his account. All the other accounts can be opened. I restarted using a start up disk and pressing C. No help. I have now opened up a new account and can fortunately access a lot of his documents, music, etc, to transfer to the new account, but would prefer to be able to open the old one. This is another symptom of a general slowdown and regular freezing. What might be happening?

It may be a startup item in that user account. Open System Preferences and then Accounts (at the bottom). From here select the bad account and click startup items on the right. Uncheck all items here (especially MSN). Logout and log back in and see if it's fixed if not read on.
You will need to open Terminal and do some Unix command line commands to get the account up and working. First logon to the working account and open up Terminal. Terminal is located in the Applications/Utilities folder. In the terminal window type sudo -s (then hit return) then type the password for the working account.
You are now ready to type commands. First you need to move everything off of the Desktop. You may have a corrupted file there. To do this type "cd /Users/username/Desktop" (WITHOUT the quotes) where username is the name of the non working account. (then hit return) Move everything off the desktop. Type "mv * ~/Documents/" (then hit return) This will move all documents off of the Desktop. Next type "cd /Users/username/Library/Preferences" (then hit return) and type "rm com.apple.desktop.plist" (then hit return) and type "rm com.apple.dock.plist" (then hit return) and type "rm com.apple.finder.plist"
Now restart your computer and see if you can logon.

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