User Account problem - bounce's back to Login screen

Here's a new one for ya. My 24" iMac (OSX 10.6.2) will allow login on some but not all user accounts. I currently have 5 different user accounts on my iMac (we are a family of 5). No problems ever with logging in until SL upgrade. Now 2 of the 5 user accounts act strange. When you click an account everything appears fine, then you see a quick flash of blue screen and you return to the main user account/login screen. I can select any of the 3 other accounts and everything works as it should. I repaired permissions and that didn't help. Any ideas?

In System Preferences > Accounts, for each account you can assign "login items".
These will start automatically when the account logs in. If there is something that
is not compatible with Snow Leopard, it may be causing problems.
Easiest thing to do to verify this is to remove them.
You will need administrator access to the accounts panel to make the change.
Dave

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