Cant Login to my Account or access files

A little while ago, finder wasn't opening on my machine - I opened up activity monitor to see that finder was highlighted in red and wasn't responding. I used the force quit option to shut it down (silly mistake I think). Doing this, I realised that all the icons on the desktop were gone and when I opened finder, it wasn't showing anything at all so I rebooted the machine.
Now the system is not letting me log in and says that the username cannot be logged in at this time because of an error. I've since, tried safe mode, many restarts, eventually i even created a new admin account (instructions off one of the mac related forums - used the following command on command prompt "rm /var/db/applesetupdone"). Even using this account, I can't access the files on my original account as they are locked.
Can someone please help guide me as to what I can do in order to fix my original account (I'll be doomed if I don't get access back) - Desperately in need of help.

Hi, go the Forgot"" Password route & change your password..L

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