Lost all desktop layout apps in dock/content of iTunes, iPhoto, EyeTV

Hi .. I've now had my iMac for just under three weeks and was thrilled with ease of replication of all settings, apps, content etc. etc. from my iBook via FireWire. Brilliant!
BUT.... this morning, on startup, was surpised to find that EyeTV, IPhoto etc. Word for Mac, and most of my programs had gone from dock and now all ask me to agree to terms of use (in other words as if first ever opening of software which has all been in daily use). Word, Excel for Mac etc. seem to have lost their memory - they have no listing of files most recently opened and so on.
There is absolutely NO content in iPhoto (entire photo library gone!), iTunes (my saved and purchased music gone!); EyeTV (recorded programs gone!). etc. etc.
Has anyone got any idea what might have happened and how to fix this? Yesterday, via software updates, I selected and downloaded an iDVD update as I'd wanted to start using this program for first time ever ... Could this possibly have caused such major havoc? Everything was OK when I powered down last night...
HELP!
thanks
Jenel

Hi Ian
Well, I hadn't realised that I had - but you're absolutely right! I now remember that I didn't like the photo that Photobooth had attached as My Account image and tried to change that.
I was surprised to find that there are two Accounts there - one as Jenny XXXXX and the other as Jennifer XXXXX. The Jennifer probably came across from the iBook and Jenny would have been on this machine. I'd really appreciate your help on how to unite them into one and be sure to get ALL my preferences and content under that one as I want to network the two machines...
thanks so much
Jenny

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