Addressbook and old mail gone missing after renaming my macbook

Hey there,
i just inherited my dad's macbook after being a troubled win user for years. I renamed it and figured that the desktop items were missing and so were addressbook, old accounts and all old mail. i found the old desktop items but can't find the mail items.
Can anyone help?

What exactly did you rename? The home folder? or did you create a new user?
Files, preferences, data within an application such as Mail or ical or safari are associated with a particular user. If you log in as a new user or if you change the name of the home folder you will loose that "link" and may not locate "old" data at log in.
I suggest you rename the home folder or whatever you renamed and then look at this link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1952.html
hope this helps

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