Sharing Parallels and Quickbook files between users

Hello all.
My account (admin) has parallels(w/XP) installed and running Quickbooks on it.
I would like to have another user access them (and the needed data files) on her user account.
How can I do this without giving her access to all the other stuff on my account?
Thanks in advance,
Mr Baby Man (no, not that one)
PS Maybe wrong forum, but can I have Parallels and Quickbooks (running on XP) use my fonts from my Mac (Office 2008)?

It's a good idea not to work as an admin user... That aside,
Parallels is probably installed in the usual location in the Applications folder (if not, that's where you want it). Simply copying the virtual machine to /Users/Shared should make it accessible to all users. You can also select the icon for the VM, press command-I, and go to the bottom and set permissions for accessing the VM (i.e., set who's allowed to "open" it).
As far as the fonts question, Windows will recognize any TrueType and Adobe Type 1 fonts, just copy the files over. Non-TrueType non-Type 1 Mac fonts won't work without using a commercial font design application to convert them.

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