Setting up new mac soon

We will be adding an iMac to the house hold in few days. This computer will be primarily for our young children, though we will use it occaionally.
Currently we have an iBook and an Airport Extreme network.
I am prepared to create accounts for our children, leaving my account as the admin.
My questions are:
1) Should I set these accounts up now on the iBook? Will they tranfer to the new iMac after we create a newtork with the two machines?
2) I'm a little confused about the file sharing stuff - will our library of photos be accessible from the new mac? Meaning, when i open iPhoto on the new mac, after creating a network, will the pics from the iBook be there?
I'm sure these are basic questions, but after reading through some sections of "The Missing Manual" I still don't feel comfortable that I know the answers.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Tad,
1. If you use Migration Assistant, any/all Accounts on the iBook should transfer fine.
2. File Sharing should work, and Sharepoints will make it easy to chosse exactly what you wish to Share...
http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/
iPhoto should be a matter of chossing that in Prefs once they are networked.

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