Shoot I did NOT see this reponse fast enough. I Deleted the user a few hours after you posted it though I allowed OSX to same the Home Dir such that it was to a Deleted users dir. **** The Home went AWALl when I did the CHMOD in the wrong place.

total 520
drwxrwxr-t 8 root admin 272 Apr 24 22:36 .
drwxrwxr-t 351 root admin 12036 Apr 23 23:46 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 administ admin 6148 Dec 15 19:35 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 20 2005 .localized
drwxrwx--- 4 root admin 136 Apr 24 22:33 Deleted Users
drwxrwxrwt 10 root wheel 340 Jan 25 20:14 Shared
drwxr-xr-x 34 administ staff 1156 Apr 20 22:10 administrator
-rw-r--r-- 1 administ admin 254924 Dec 9 22:39 directdeposit.pdf
[loverbook:~] administ%

** I still have the main same quesetion for myself and others.. What is it about Creating a New User with Admin the computer rights that can create the situation where MS Indentities and MS Office folder and who know what else was not shared correctly with both users.

I imagine now that I could have either used the commands you gave me more carfully after the Idenity fix, and or replaced the MS folder from a back up with both users present it would have proper rights, or I could have changed them from Get Info.

But the main questions is how did it break in the first place? Do both users need to be present before apps are installed. Is it just an anomaly?

In a normal setup, you don't want other users on a computer to be able to read your mail. It was not broken, it was properly set to not allow something that most people don't want set.

If you want to allow another user to read your mail, as you do, then you need to set the permissions that way.

Trevor