Account name confusion?

A friend was just given a G4. It's a Dual 800 PowerPC G4, 1.12 GB. It's running OSx 10.3.9
I changed the name in the 'Accounts' for her. I didn't create a 'new' account, I just changed the name of the admin account. It seemed to take just fine - and appeared in the place of the admin name in the Finder Window (over on the left). A few days later she rebooted the computer ... to find that the original name of the account has re-appeared in the Finder window, all but the primary Mac apps have disappeared from the Dock, and the folders of photos she had placed on her desktop are gone! I get that emergency call.
I go into System Preferences and Accounts, and there is the new name I assigned to the account. But in the finder window, over on the left, the name of the admin is the original name (of the previous owner). And though all the original apps are still safe in Applications, her folders on the desktop have disappeared.
I've looked to see if there are now two accounts in the System Preferences. Nope, just that one admin account, with her name on it (the new one I assigned several days ago).
Can anyone suggest what might be going on here, and how I could fix the issue? And, if possible, where those photos on the desktop might have disappeared to?
All ears,
Ben

Hi John,
One last little bitty question?
1- Log in as root (if you can't, log in as any administrator-level account).
    I'm logging in with the 'admin' account (the one that's been problematic).
2- Go to System Preferences->Accounts and delete every other user account shown.
    There are no other 'user accounts'.
3- Create a new account for your friend. Be sure it has administrator privileges.
    Here's the confusion. I create a new account for my friend. It says 'standard' account. I can't find any place to change this to 'admin' (or any place obvious that allows me to set 'administrator privileges'). I don't want to delete the account I logged in on, which DOES have admin privileges.
4- (Only if you didn't do the preceding logged in as root.) Log out with whatever account you logged into.
    This suggests that I shouldn't YET be deleting the 'admin' account I logged in with.
5- (Only if you didn't do the preceding logged in as root.) Log in with the new account you just created.
    So I try this, but when I come back in my NEW account is called 'standard', and the old (grey out) account still says 'admin' under the name. So this is where I want to be very careful.
6- (Only if you didn't do the preceding logged in as root.) Go to System Preferences->Accounts and delete every account name you see except the new one you just logged in with.
    Not until I figure out how to make my NEW account have admin privileges ... and get rid of that 'standard' written under the name. Right? So what might I be missing?
So now I've very curious...
All the best,
Ben

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