Restoring keychain & other user files to new user

My HD died & Apple is replacing it. I have recent backups of my Keychain & other user settings on my iDisk that I want to restore when I get my Mac back (5 days to put in a new HD!)
The new user & password that Apple is setting up on the new HD is going to be different than on my defunct drive, so I'm wondering if I'm going to run into problems restoring my backups to a new user name.
Are there specific steps I need to take to have the old files usable by the new user?
thanks

The new user & password that Apple is setting up on the new HD is going to be different than on my defunct drive, so I'm wondering if I'm going to run into problems restoring my backups to a new user name.
Create another new account, same as your old account, why not?
Nothing preventing or stopping you.
Most defunct drives can be reformatted with zero-all option and might still work, unless it really was a hard crash (rare) and the head "dived" into the platter or something.

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