Archive and Install - getting files from a prev. home direc.

After the 10.4.4 update, my computer crashed so I decided to do a Archive and Install without selecting the "Preserve Users and Network Settings" option. I am following the instructions given by Apple about this - <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107297>
However, when I try to retrieve the data from my user account, the image file is empty As a matter of fact, I do know that the data is on the HD, since it's taking up same amount of space....
Help is appreciated!
Thx

I'm afraid yes... I went to Disk Utility - File - New - Disk Image from folder. And then chose the folder with my user name. It goes ahead and creates the image file - which is 56kb btw.
The weird thing is that the Previous System file is 30gb. So, there is no way that my stuff is deleted. Just don't know how to get to it.
Any ideas?

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