Setup Assistant - (PC with two user ID's) Starts up every time - no prefs

We have 2 ipods, so in my Windows XP PC I've set up one library for "userA", and another for "User B." User A is just a user, UserB is an administrator.
Setup assistant pops up every time I start under UserB (the admin). So, based upon the many threads on this, I looked for a prefs file. In the C\Docs & Settings\userA\ there is an Applications Data folder with several applications folders, including an Apple Computer folder and an iTunes subfolder with the iTunes prefs file.
But userB's (the Administrator) - Docs and Settings has no Applications data folder at all. I tried copying the prefs file from userA into the All Users folder, with no luck. Now I'm hopelessly confused. How can I set up a prefs file when the admin seems to have no Applications data folder at all? (And why is this anyway - seems that the admin account should have all the info, not the ordinary user with few privileges.)
Thanks for your help.

Hi,
To eliminate your worries, two user accounts have the same user name doesn’t mean that they have the same SID. Moreover, the user’s SID remains the same even after it has been renamed.
The SID for domain account/group consists of a
Domain Identifier and a Relative Identifier. Domain Identifier is unique in every domain within a forest, and a Relative Identifier is unique within domain. It is unlikely that two user accounts with or without the same account
name from two forests have the same SID.
The Technet article you mentioned is talking about duplicate SIDs instead of “duplicate computer name or user account”, I will submit a change request to Microsoft about this.
If there are duplicate SIDs when you create forest trust, you need to delete one of them as the article guides.
Here are some related articles below for your references:
How Security Identifiers Work
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778824(v=WS.10).aspx
Security Identifier Structure
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc962011.aspx
Security Identifier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Identifier
I hope this helps.
Amy Wang

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