It's easy when you have mystical powers which are activated once you have listened to two albums by a band and enable you to determine whether their other albums are good or not without actually having to listen to them first.
In all seriousness, I do like One Of These Nights quite a lot myself. It isn't perfect and it definitely wouldn't rank higher than fourth in my list now but I really enjoyed it when I first uploaded the CD into my iTunes library. If I had to pick one favourite it would be the title track - to my mind it's a great fusion of softer and harder rock elements (these being the harmonies and the guitar respectively), I do love the other two singles and ATTIG as well though. I like Too Many Hands a lot and I am also, somewhat unusually, a fan of Journey of the Sorcerer - I find it to be an interesting and worthy experiment, and it has a great, unique cosmic bluegrass feel to it. Hollywood Waltz is decent too, but admittedly the other two songs are not great and far off the quality of the best tracks on the album.
MaryCalifornia, your experience is vaguely similar to mine in that you were first exposed to the Eagles on cassette at that sort of age. My parents started playing 'grown up' music in the car with us (me and my sister) when I was about 7-8 too and Rumours was one of the first albums I ever heard. The difference is that my first Eagles-related album was actually Don's End Of The Innocence (for what it's worth, the other main albums I remember them playing regularly were James Taylor's Greatest Hits and Jackson Browne's I'm Alive). It wasn't until a decade or so after this that I got into the Eagles and for many years I had no idea that Henley had been in the Eagles prior to his solo career.