I'm not sure what I've done but I need help please

Hi everyone.
I seem to have done something really stupid. In the finder window, I renamed the 'folder' that has the house next to it, from Michaellastname just to Mike. Following that, I went into Front Row to watch a movie saved in my "Movie" folder. Low and behold, Front Row told me that there was nothing saved in that folder, despite the fact that I verified and it was there (I ended up watching it in Quicktime).
Thinking that I maybe just went about creating another user account, and that if I logged out of this new 'Mike' account everything would be ok. Logging out and logging back in seemed to restore my computer to its original settings ... nothing on the desktop, the dock is the way it was when i took it out of the box, and all my photos and music files etc are missing (well they're still there in that 'Mike' folder, meanwhile 'Michaellastname' still exists). There was no other account to log into other than 'Michaellastname'. Now I don't know what to do ... I would like to move all of my files and settings back to 'Michaellastname' and get rid of the 'Mike' folder, but don't want to try anything on my own because I'm clearly incompetent.
Can anyone please shed some light on my stupidity and explain how I can fix what I've done? Thank you!

This is something that happens quite often, so don't feel bad. The ones who should feel bad are the programmers who neglected to have Finder pop a warning when you try to do this, or written code to prevent you doing it at all. It happens so often that Apple provides an article on what to do to fix it:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1952.html
Hope that helps.
Francine
Francine
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