You may be setting yourself up for a case of dueling distros. Especially when different distros have different versions of KDE or Gnome and different menu structures. I would recommend that you use separate home directories in a common /home partition. You could use symbolic links for common subdirectories such as Documents, Music, Downloads.
What you probably don't want in common is the hidden directories that KDE and Gnome use. For other hidden directories, such as ~/.ssh/, you might want either replicate the information from one home directory to another or replace them with links to a common directory.
You could for example use a common user name but have the home directory referred to in /etc/passwd have the distro name appended. For example:
In SuSE: /home/Lindy_SuSE
In RH: /home/Lindy_RH
In Mandriva: /home/Lindy_Mand
You will need to make sure to use the same UID and default GID for the user, so that you have access to the common directories which ever distro you are using at the time. SuSE and Mandrake use a different default range for user UID numbers.
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