Two users now cant go back to owner

hi i made a new account for a freind of mine to use and now i cant get to the login window or log out into my owner account. what do i do?
~ChRiS

Hi, iDVD -
Great - glad that took care of it.
To answer a previous question (file for the future) - no, for things like that it need not be an OS 9 Install CD. Provided the firmware is up to date, an OSX Install CD, or any CD the machine can boot to (such as a disk utility's CD, like DiskWarrior), any one at all.
Usually such a prefs file is tagged as being "in-use" when the OS on the hard drive is booted to, and so it is difficult to throw away. The solution is usually to boot to a CD, so that the OS on the hard drive (and its files) are not in active use - at that time anything can be done to them.
Sometimes it also can work (such as when a font file is damaged) to drag the item out to the desktop, and then restart - it can often be thrown away then.
As far as changing your Discussions alias (in this context, "iDVD" is your forum alias) goes, it is not possible to do that - even the forum's Hosts (Sysops and Moderators) can't do it. The only way to do that in effect is to create a new member account for Discussions, with a new alias chosen. Unfortunately, this will have a side effect of losing the post counts, point counts, etc., associated with the old account.

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