Second user account crashes the system?

I'm really stumped; after enduring the migration assistant screw up and crash the newly installed Snow Leopard system on my macbook pro...THREE TIMES and finally ferrying all the documents and apps manually to my primary (home) account, I created a second user account to use for my office work. The home account seems to work fine, but when I logout and try to access the new, empty office account, it's like opening the door and stepping into blank space; all I get is the pink and blue astral plane and the spinning beachball of death!! The only solution is to press the on off button and reboot.
What do I do? This seems to be a different problem from the guest account accidentally wiping the hard drive clean? HEEELLLP!! I can't work until I can get my computer up!

Thanks VK and KT for the replies. I''ve done it both ways: I've deleted the second account and recreated it with a new name...still doesn't work. Changed the 2nd account from a Admin account to Standard, and that didn't work. AND I've tried logging out of one and directly into the other, and when that didn't work (because the system crashed) I started up from scratch and went directly to the second user account... and the same thing happened. LOL at least it's consistent <rueful grin>

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