Desktop Keeps Resetting

I have a MBP 2.0... for the first month i had i loved it. Now is annoying me. Its almost like i got a virus. The last two times i have logged on my desktop and tool bar have been reset to the factory defaults. Also the Iphoto keeps freezing up. And the wireless wont work. when i hardwire it in it works fine but it wont load pages in either safari or camino.... I cant figure out what is wrong. I might try a reformat soon but i'd rather avoid that as i have loaded up with mp3s and have msoffice installed on it (i only get three installs with the student package). Some more info might be that i recently installed the updater for the OSX and the intel mbp. But it ran fine with that for awhile....
does any one know what is going on.
Thanks,
~nades

Does renaming the username reset everything to it`s original state?
I have done that on my MBP when I was changing icons and I also changed my name from small letters to Capital and the next thing I know everything was reset.
I lost all the folders that I created and every app was set to default.

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