Dragged user folder by accident

Okay, so yesterday I was listening to a book on CD on my MacBook and just messing around with programs and things. So, on the folder of my user I accidentally grabbed the house and dragged it onto the desktop. When I noticed that I did that, I just dragged it back in, thinking it was a shortcut or something.
After a while I clicked on my entorauge (email) and it was empty. I looked around on my computer, and stuff like the password for my internet and other things were all gone. I restarted the computer and everything was set to the default. Thankfully, all my stuff was still on my computer when I searched for it on finder--but none of my music was in my iTunes, none of my movies were in the movies folder, none of my email were in my entorauge (there was no movies, music, or pictures folder in finder, actually). All of my things were in a folder labeled with my user and it had my desktop, pictures, music, movies, settings, etc, in it, just the way my original user folder used to be. It's like I dragged my entire user folder somewhere else and now it's back to it's default.
Is there any way to fix it to the way it was before? How do you make the folder back into the main user folder?
I would really appreciate anyone who could help.

See if this helps.
Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 or later: Return to default desktop, apparent "loss" of home directory
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854
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