External USB Hard Drive crashed with my Home Folder!

I have my home folder on an external USB drive that went bad, so now I can't log in. I get the message "You are unable to log in to the user account xxxx at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred". Well, I know the error is because my home folder on the external drive is not accessible.
My original home folder is still on the internal hard drive. How do I change the path to the home folder on the internal drive when I can't log in. I don't have any other User accounts on this MAC, so I can't log in as a different Administrative User to change the path to the home folder on the internal drive. This MAC is running Lion (OS X 10.7.5). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

First, find out your current user home directory for the User Account Name you wish to recover.
If your user accounts are not accesible to do this command from terminal, start the Macintosh in recovery mode.
This can be done by pressing Command+R during startup.
Select the terminal from the tools and enter this command.
"dscl . read /Users/User NFSHomeDirectory" .....obviously without the quotations and instead of "User" put the name of the user you with to recover.
Now if the name of hard disk is named "XXXXX 1" that is with a number one at the end of your home directory hard disk name, that means that the Mac OS has renamed your hard disk at a different mount point. Due to this flaw, the OS is not recognizing your hard disk, hence the error.
Gain root access in the terminal and navigate to the /Volumes directory. Print all the drives in that directory.
If you have duplicate folder names, like  "xxxxx", "xxxxx 1", then eject your home directory hard disk (so you are sure you won't delete your files when you do the next steps), and print the contents of the directory. If there is a folder that has the name of your hard disk home directory, DELETE IT.
Now, still in the recovery terminal mode, make a local user account (unless you already have a valid account you can logon on to such as a guest account) so you can verify that your old account is still set to your hard drive home directory name.
Here's a shell script, where "Administrator" is any name you like.
#!/bin/sh
. /etc/rc.common
dscl . create /Users/administrator
dscl . create /Users/administrator RealName "Administrator Account"
dscl . create /Users/administrator hint "Password Hint"
dscl . create /Users/administrator picture "/Path/To/Picture.png"
dscl . passwd /Users/administrator thisistheaccountpassword
dscl . create /Users/administrator UniqueID 501
dscl . create /Users/administrator PrimaryGroupID 80
dscl . create /Users/administrator UserShell /bin/bash
dscl . create /Users/administrator NFSHomeDirectory /Users/administrator
cp -R /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj /Users/administrator
chown -R administrator:staff /Users/administrator
Now Logon to that account. Go to System Preferences ----> Users & Groups ----> Right Click on The User You Wish To Recover ----> Advanced Options ----> And MAKE SURE That The Home Directory Is The Correct Name i.e. "Home Directory", NOT "Home Directory 1". Voila.
Change this from the temporary user account, log off, and you should have access. BTW, I always recommend having a guest account enabled or a secondary user account when you wish to recover your account whenever you disconnect your home directory hard drive by accident or it crashes. Thanks for reading.

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