Question re: syncing User Accounts between 2 machines wirelessly. Possible?

I'm soon to take delivery of a 24" iMac and I plan to have 2 User accounts on there for myself and my partner. My partner also has a G4 iBook.
My question is, is there anyway that my partner can sync her account (documents and settings) on her iBook with her account on the iMac? ie. if she starts a Word document on one machine, then moves to the other machine and syncs, can she continue to edit the document, and vice versa?
Is there something in OS X or third party that would facilitate this?
Any advice much appreciated.
Neil

We do use portable accounts. This is so that we don't tie up the network letting users work directly from their network accounts. We also need to have the ability of our users to work at different computers, but still get access to their own stuff. We have it set up so that when a user logs onto another computer for the first time, he is asked if he wishes to create a portable home directory. We have them answer "yes". I think at that time it then brings down from their network account all their files and settings so that the new computer will look like any other computer that they already have worked at. This appears to creat what is called a mobile account on the computer. We also have syncing set up to sync at login and logout. This, hopefully will sync up their network directory to any changes made at different computers and thus make those changes appear on any other computer that they work at. Sometimes the user gets a message that their network account has changed since last logon and ask if they wish to sync to their network account or their local account. We normally tell them to sync to their network account, assuming that it has the newest changes. None of our users ever work offline from our network so their network account should always be the most recent version of any files. This is assuming that the syncing is working properly. Does this make any sense? Does it sound like we are doing this properly or is there a better, more efficient procedure?

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