An option, if you can arrange it, would be to get someone else to write it. Seriously. If you can find someone who's (a) good at writing, and (b) amenable to helping, then get them to set the system up and document what they're doing at the same time (with your assistance as and when they need it). Ideally, get more than one person to set the system up, so you cover as many 'gotchas' as possible.

And, yes, I realise that that "If you can find someone..." sentence may possibly be a tad optimistic ;-)

Another alternative, which I personally think works really well, is to have either a Wiki or user-commentable documentation (see AnnoCPAN for the sort of thing I'm on about). Admittedly it can be more long-term work in terms of keeping the content useful and/or spam-free, but, assuming your users are in any way "involved" with the system, then that may work really well for you.

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