Consequences of not completing the Startup Assistant

What are the Consequences of not completing the Startup Assistant?
After a TM restore and the Setup Assistant splash screen had finished, I CMD-Q out of it.
I have seen that when I open (for the first time) apps such as Aperture, I do not get registration details filled in.
This I can live with, but are there any other consequences that may have a future impact?
If so can i run Startup Assistant again? or at least where is the data yo enter into it sored and can it be entered manually.
That is the basic question. What follows is a summary of why this happened. , but you probably do not need to know that to answer the above, just included for completeness.
This is on a Mac Pro with 4 HD's:
1) System
2) user home folders
3) Video/Pic Music files
4) Time machine drive
I had two users on the machine. An standard user called 'Home' and an admin user 'Neil'
Both user home folders were stored on drive 2)
My initial mistake was calling one user 'Home' , Time Machine auto excluded it from the backup.
Once I realized this I created a new user, logged into it and deleted the old user named Home.
This is a new machine and I am installing various bit of software as I search for apps that I need. I ended up with loads of useless apps, so decided to go for a Time Machine restore, keeping just the d/loaded packages of the apps I wanted.
The TM restore was for a time BEFORE I got rid of the user 'Home' When it rebooted, i could not logon as the user 'Home' was gone.
Got this sorted with another Restore, created sacrificial user 'home', rebooted then restored again to the earlier time, setup new users correctly with 'non system' user names and rebooted.
It was at this reboot, loggin on to the new users that the Setup assistant appeared that I quitted out of
Neil

OK, great, so it is not a 'System breaker ' error that I have committed.
I have since been through and launched all the apps in the apps folder. had to do a reinstall of the iLife and iWork apps, but everything else was fine.
Both iLife and iWork were both up to date from Software Update, but even with a re install from original disk, the updates were kept....newer files were kept ....wheww something went right today
Message was edited by: Neil Paisnel

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