After Leopard fiasco, new fiasco, help restore user?

After problems with Leopard I did an archive and install of 10.3.9 (while I hunt around for my 10.4 discs). When I try to replace new user files with the old ones (the REAL me) I get the message that I do not have permission to do that. How can I restore my old user files? Please help. My computer doesn't know me!

Hi again Laurie,
"But today, since everything was awry anyway, I decided to try again with Leopard. (it really is a nifty program). Did an archive and install and finally got it running okay."
That's great! Don't know what you did to get it running after the archive and install but at this point that is great that at least you got it up and running "ok" for now.
I know that alot of people automatically advise a repair of permissions as if it were a "cure all". I usually might suggest that myself to users here just to get that out of the way and make sure that there is no corruption to the preferences but not as an end all for a problem such as you are/were having.
"Anyway, again, I apologize."
Laurie, there is no need. Trust me, we here in the Discussions understand being upset and frustrated with OS problems. They can be very trying and worsened with the lack of direct concrete answers to fix them.
I did find this on Adobe's site for After Effects CS3:
"Learn about Adobe's plans for Creative Suite 3 on Mac OS X Leopard."
Scroll down the page halfway to the link. It will download a small PDF file that might help. Sorry, if you have already read through this info. It seems there might be some updates that you need from Adobe to run it on Leopard. Again, sorry if you have already been down that road and still having problems.
I know what it's like to be locked out of your computer due to the OS not working. I do alot of online auctions and when I am down I lose money and worse yet cannot communicate properly with customers. Hang in there though, Laurie, this stuff all works out in the end for better for worse.
If there is anything you can think of that we might be able to help with please post back and we'll try to come up with some solutions, either here or in the Leopard forums.
good luck,
littleshoulders

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