Account Tabs

One alternative would be to remove the tabs on the account page, and replace them by custom links (in a block for example).The path of the user page is like this :

http://www.mysite.com/user/1

where 1 is the user ID. You can make this link in a template like this :

<?php echo l('View my account', 'user/' . $user->uid . '/edit') ;?>

This will create a link showing the connected user name, linking to it's user page. Now knowing this, the 'edit account path is like this :

http://www.mysite.com/user/1/edit

So to build a dynamic link to edit the connected user's account, it's simple like this :

<?php echo l('Edit my account', 'user/' . $user->uid) ;?>

By using this in a template or a block (with PHP format), you can drop these links wherever you want. You might have to use this in your block if this doesn't work :
<?php global $user ;?>

Hope this helps

You can drop it either in a block, that you can then drop in any region of your theme, but if you do that, you will still have the tabs showing up.
The best solution imhois to drop it in the page.tpl.php. You can make a condition that checks if the URL starts with 'user', and if yes, output your custom links, if no, just output the normal tabs.

So in your page.tpl.php, instead of :

		        			<?php if ($tabs): ?>
		        			  <div class="tabs"><?php echo $tabs; ?></div>
		        			<?php endif; ?>

use this:

<?php 
   $url = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
   if ($tabs && $url[1] != "user"): ?>
    <div class="tabs"><?php echo $tabs; ?></div>
<?php else : ?>
  <?php echo l('View my account', 'user/' . $user->uid) ;?>
  <?php echo l('Edit my account', 'user/' . $user->uid . '/edit') ;?>
<?php endif; ?>