Too late to add user account?

I have been working in my administrator account since buying my iMac G5 in December. I understand the wisdom of using a user account instead. I am wondering if it is too late to add a user account. If I do that, can I import the folders and files from my administrator account to the user account?
iMac G5 2.1 GHz with iSight Mac OS X (10.4.7)

The easy way is to create a new administrator account, them demote your old account to non-administrator.

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> in filr1_admin.pdf, page 34, it's mentionned that if a user logs in
> before his net folder Proxy info is set up, "the Home directories are
> not created correctly...". So, what can be done in this case (apart
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>
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