Unix Guru to help with User Account re-install.

I have a glitch in my main Administrator account which prevents Adobe Photoshop CS2 opening or importing files of any kind from any file.
A dialogue box tells me “Could not complete your request because of a program error.”
Adobe refers to Tech Note 331307 item 2, which offers tests and options most of which I have tried. When I establish a new User Account I am able to use Photoshop fine which suggests the Admin User Account is corrupted.
According to the tech note, my only remaining option is to re-initialize the disk and rebuild system completely. That is a very big task which I seek to avoid.
I have:
1. Run Disk Doctor over all Fonts in all folders and fixed or deleted damaged Fonts.
2. Run Disk Warrior and re-run Permissions with Xupport.
3. Opened as Single user, run fsck -f. remounted disk, moved and replaced db/netinfo and replaced AppleSetupDone. All confirmed OK but glitch remained for Photoshop CS2.
Can any Guru offer a Unix solution - or any solution, which avoids
re-formatting and building my complete system?
Alternatively, given I have many addresses and bookmarks to preserve in three browsers as well as my Mail and Address book, what is the best method by which to establish a new account and delete the old one.
Many Thanks
Mezolithic.

Hi Tony
Yes I can confirm that this doesn't wipe out address book details and Internet set-up prefs and bookmarks.
In fact putil cannot wipe out anything. It's purpose is to check the syntax of plist files or convert a plist file to another format. No conversion is taking pace here. The -s option means output is supressed, so if you don't see anything, it means there are no errors to report.
The * character means "all" , in this case all plist files.
Eg. If you wanted to list all of the document files ending in .doc, in say a Documents folder but not .txt files, you could specify *.doc. Similarly if you wanted to list all documents named reports, regardless of the extension, you would use reports.*
So that is the usage of *.
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regards roam

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