Importing software settings from one user to another

I'm sure this is a FAQ but an extensive google has drawn a blank.

We have a small network with a few PCs running various Windows and
unix/linux versions. Our network is too small to justify having a
domain controller. Each system has the same set of users, and each user
has the same password on every PC. So if I log on as "bloggs" and enter
my password as "whatever" I can access all the shared drives on all the
PCs. There are only six authorised users so this is not a huge
administrative burden.

However, we've always logged into the Windows 2000 PC as
"administrator". We have some other accounts on it so that some of the
other users can access the shared drive on this PC. We now want to
start logging into this PC using our correct user names. The only
problem with that is that there's a huge collection of installed
software which has been accessed only by "administrator". This software
has collected a vast amount of state (eg IE/Firefox form completion
settings, Visual Studio preferences, file extensions....)

Is there any easy way to copy this lot out of the administrator account
and into the user account? Is it just a simple matter of backing up and
restoring a chunk of the registry (or even copying the ntuser.dat
file?) or is there more to it than that?

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Simon Elliott http://www.ctsn.co.uk
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