Help, I've really caused a mess!

I had to force quit my finder, it froze. Now I have lost ALL my preferences including all the bookmarks for FoxFire and Safari, the time, date, everything. I don't know if this is what caused the problem, force quiting as I've done it before and nothing like this happened.
I also rearrange the Users folder. I took my name file out of the users folder and put it in with the Panther folder by itself. Is this what did it? I am just sick. Is there anyway I can undo this mess? I didn't dump the tash. I noticed it made a new one after I restarted. Am I doomed?
When I restarted, what I had on the desktop was still there, but most of my aliases were just question makers. I am the only user of this Mac. I really need to get my book marks back.
Please help!
Patt
DDR G4 DP Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Never mind. I put all the "name"files into the new "name" file generated when I restarted and all the preferences came back. Now I understand so much more than I did before I started organizing my Mac. Won't be doing that again real soon. Sorry for the panic, I was too scared to think.
Thanks,
Patt

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Attachments:
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Debug-Harry_0921 BD.pdf ‏842 KB

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