Mess in Users folder - please help!!

Hey
My name is Fabrice, and the name of the man who previously owned the computer (PB G4, os X version 10.11 was called Pankaj. I tried to rename the admin (the one with a little house icon, I guess it's called the root?) in the "users" folder from Pankaj to Fabrice because it was annoying me (especially when I connect to other networks and people look for Fabrice but only find Pankaj). To do so I clicked on the name near the little house icon in Mac/users/ and renamed it, but there was already a blue folder in /users/ with Fabrice, so to avoid conflict I renamed the house folder with "Fabrice Familyname". When I restarted the computer, all my preferences were gone, the dock prefs and the wallpaper alike, there was nothing on the desktop, etc. Nothing had been deleted but when I went to mac/users/ there was now three "users": the house icon was still called "Pankaj" (22gb), and there were two blue folders :the "Fabrice" folder (3gb) and the "Fabrice Familyname" (blue) folder (330mb). I found some of my preferences that were missing, for example all the firefox preferences that I really need back, in the "Fabrice Familyname" folder. In the Users section of System Preferences, though, there is just "Fabrice" - no other choice.
So, okay, I did something I shouldnt have. Now I can't even connect to my own house's wireless internet connection because god knows where I have the codes written down, and they're among the misplaced prefs.
1)-Why are some of my personal files in the "Fabrice Familyname" folder?
2)-How can I go back to my previous settings, and just know where they are? It just seems strange that some personal files are in the 300 mb folder while the other one is 3 gb.
I really need to have my Firefox preferences back, of all things, but it seemed when I replaced the Firefox folder in the Application Support folder that had firefox default settings with the one with my personal settings, that after restarting the folder was a default one again.
And how about my wireless internet codes?
I feel like it's going to be a real headache solving this, so if anyone could help it would be wonderful! Maybe I just need to backup the "Fabrice" folder that's 3gb and then delete it?
Waiting for a reply I think I'll go back everything up on CDs, the whole 30 gigs... lots of fun ahead, but I'm just too afraid if I moved the users folder with default settings to the trash it would do something bad.
Please help me if you know what I did stupid and how to undo!

Hi Fabrice!
See if the info in one, or more, of the Articles linked to below, helps.
Return to Default Desktop, Apparent "Loss" of Home Directory
My home folder and desktop are different than before
Recover from renaming your Home folder, authored by Dr Smoke
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