Edit Default User Killed Leopard Default User folder completely disapeared

I was trying to create a custom default user for network users to login to because I was learning how to set up a Mac for use as a campus public PC.
We do not have a Mac server but do have a Novell server set as Open directory. I was the first to figure out how to LDAP authenticate users.
The next step was to customize the default user template for network users to login into on the Mac. Then all went dead.
I copied in settings from the root user to the default user location and repaired permissions on the hard drive. I was following proceedures I found online the best I could. These:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2105869&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2056194&tstart=0
It seemed to be going well then I went to go to system preferences and
the OS slowed then froze and after a reset would not boot.
It would go to the gray Null sign circle with a line through several times and would try to boot other partitions.
A verbose boot said something about the Boot.efi being in some trashes folder.
I booted from a USB back up of the OS and searched for the folder that holds the default user profile and it was not there at all.
When trying to set a boot device it would no longer let me select the internal hard disk.
Any ideas? I am reinstalling the OS but does anyone know what happened? Was this a Mac virus, a hack attack, does repairing permissions as the root user cause destruction? Are there system boot files in the default user profile location?

Thanks for your reply those sound like good emergency aid procedures. I need to know more of those.
I did a full reinstall and tried the same procedure but they system is running well this time. My goal of a custom user profile for network users though still does not work. For this issue I will search other threads or start a new one.
Situation I can authenticate network users to LDAP on our Novell server. Our Novell server does not have mappings for Apple computers though so it is just basic authentication. I was able to script mapping of the appropriate volumes as a start up item in the doc.
The problem is after they authenticate through LDAP at the login screen they all get dumped into the root users profile and they have root user powers. Even after I disabled the root user.
I wanted them to use the custom default profile I made. I created a temp user called student customized it copied its profile to the default user profile location. If I create a new user in account preferences it uses that custom profile fine BUT network users always login as the / a root user.
I could use that because we want to lock down the harddrive with deepfreeze. BUT the novell iPrint program required for users to print does not work at all in this crazy Fake Root user environment.

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