Spotlight permission issue with multiple users - user A can search files from user B

Hello everybody,
i need your help with a bad and precarious spotlight issue.
Mavericks is a clean install on my 2010 MacPro and Everything runs fine - but this issue is very annoying.
User A is admin - user B a normal user.
The Problem:
If user B uses spotlight in his account, he also gets the search results from files of User A.
This meens the files in the user folder from User A and also the files on his own extra hard-drive.
For Example to get it clear to you:
On the Desk of User A is a file called "birthday-presents.rtf".
User B searches in his Spotlight "birthday" - now he gets as a result also this file from User A.
He can not open it at all - but he can se it in the spotlight search results.
This also affects the mails, calendars etc.....
This is of course very bad to User A - because his file-names aren't secure anymore.
But also User B has a problem - because his Spotlight results are much longer with a lot files he don't want to see because this files are not his ones.
What can i do?
I rebuilded the spotlight index, but this does not help.
Permissions also seem to be OK - here is a screenshot (german, but i think you catch it).

No there was no migration.
Its a complete Clean install - i only copies Files, Mailboxes, etc. manually.
Here is the result of your advise - is it OK?
Last login: Tue Jan 7 01:28:47 on console
home-MacPro:~ harry$ ls -le ~/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   2 harry staff    68 5 Nov 12:06 Applications
drwx------+ 30 harry staff 1020 7 Jan 02:07 Desktop
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+ 8 harry staff   272 5 Nov 19:42 Documents
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+ 4 harry staff   136 4 Dez 15:42 Downloads
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------@ 55 harry staff 1870 28 Nov 22:34 Library
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+ 6 harry staff   204 7 Dez 01:20 Movies
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+ 7 harry staff   238 7 Jan 02:04 Music
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+ 5 harry staff   170 4 Nov 14:54 Pictures
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx-wx-wx+ 8 harry staff   272 7 Jan 00:25 Public
0: group:everyone deny delete
home-MacPro:~ harry$

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