Safe boot vs new admin user account

If a kernel systems problem presents itself when logging under a new user account identity but NOT when booting up in safe mode - what does this mean?
Does this count out a hardware problem?

Sounds like you have a third party something that loads in any account and is causing the trouble. Safe boot disables all third party goodies (and a fair number of Apple's own as well), while logging into an alternate account would only disable user specific startup applications. So I would guess you installed something that is not user specific (that is, it isn't in the user's own login items, so can't be disabled from there) that is a problem. You can try looking in these two locations and see what, if anything, is there:
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
Thus I have a temperature monitoring gizmo in /Library/StartupItems. Another possiblity is to launch Activity Monitor and arrange the processes in alphabetical order, then select all, copy and paste the list into a text document. Do the same in Safe Boot (assuming Activity Monitor will run) and compare the two lists.
If the computer runs normally in Safe Boot I would say there is nothing wrong with the hardware.
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