Desperately Seeking HELP!

I can't find files and folders!!! in OS X Tiger
My partners MacBook apparently run out of memory and when opened again dock moved from left side to bottom nothing on the desktop - apart from HardDisk icon. When looking for the documents and old folders in the spotlight nothing is found. But when I went to Word -> recent documents I can find some. When trying 'save as' they seem to be either in their old folders or those that were saved on the desktop earlier - they seem to lay in a folder "desktop"!!!! How can I update the spotlight so it could find/locate them?! the previous folders and the previous desktop. !!!! very important!!! Where can I locate this folder "desktop" Now I'm afraid I made things even worse cause when I didn't find anything I restarted computer hoping that now that I deleted unnecessary files freeing some extra space it will go back to how it was before!!! it didn't! HELP!!!

To make Spotlight re-index a folder or a volume, do this:
• Open System Preferences -> Spotlight
• Select the "Privacy" tab
• Drag the folder or volume (such as your Macintosh HD icon) into the "Prevent Spotlight from searching ..." box. Wait a few seconds, then highlight it and click the minus sign at the bottom left,
It will take some time, depending on how much needs to be re-indexed, but that is the trick.
As for freeing up some disk space, here's some additional reading:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
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Jack,
Thanks for your response. It has helped eased my mind somewhat.
As I have activated the remote wipe control, I reckon there's no way now for me to "track" the phone as your good self has suggested. I guess i can only await the day will come soon when Apple sends me an email saying that my phone has been wiped :(
You mentioned that as I may have enabled the password code lock (which sadly I'm not entirely sure I did; I'm still in a state of shock following the robbery, and can't rem with certainty if I have not disabled it just the day before, sigh), the default mode would be for the phone to erase the data after 10 attempts. I'm not sure that is the case. Think the default setting for "Erase Data" is off, even if pass code lock is set?
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