<ol>
<li>Specifically getting on Windows the "..\Documents &amp; Settings\All Users, basicaly any path that needs the front end to be dynamically derived based on the OS your software is running on. <strong>(Now I need the answer to this)</strong></li>
<li>the current users My Documents  dirctory <strong>(okay this has been answered)</strong> 
and basicaly any path that needs the front end to be dynamically derived based on the OS your software is running on.</li>
</ol>

My docs would probably best be handled by accessing:
```
```
System.getProperty("user.home");
```
```
Look up the docs on
System.getProperty
.