Can't find "My pictures" and "My music" folders. What could have happen?

I worked on my computer Sat. I had to reinstall my system 10.4. Everything was working fine by the time I put the computer to sleep. Sunday morning I was looking at the two "Previous System" folders I had. The first from the first time I installed system 10.4 about 3 years ago and the second from this re-install. I was getting rid of duplicate stuff to free up space. I rebooted my computer and when it came back up the docking station looked huge, the alias's for my applications were gone, the folder and one image I had on my desk top where gone. Of course I noticed this after a window popped up from an icon on the docking station that looks like a tuxedo. This window asked me to register my computer. So I did, it told me my computer was now ready to use. Then I noticed the changes.
The strange thing is that my desktop photo choice from the night before was still the same one I had selected and as I mentioned, all my apps. (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) were all still in the applications folder, but my pictures folder and music folder are gone.
Help me please!

Silly question first... when "deleting duplicates", did you delete the picturs or music folders? :}
Are the "Previous system" folders still there? Are the photos/music inside the recent Previous folder?
Have you tried doing a search for the files?
Do you have a new account set up, that you are now signed in to, rather than your old account?

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