Accidentally deleted a users keychain

Hi,
I accidentally deleted one of my user's keychain. I can't remember if I selected DELETE REFERENCES AND FILES or just DELETE REFERENCES. Now there are just 2 system keychains and the X509Anchors keychains, and no certificates either.
I created a new keychain, but when trying to add passwords to it (like from Entourage for instance), it doesn't seem to take.
Is there a way to restore the deleted keychain if I don't remember what it was called?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you

No, that doesn't fix it because all the certificates were deleted too. I can create a new keychain, but no passwords "take" because of the missing certificates. Now I need to figure out how to recreate those....

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