Has anyone experienced "10.4.6 failed install" and "disappearing files"

i tried to install 10.4.6 ppc. it failed and i couldn't boot from either of my internal hard disks. i rebooted from my 10.4 original DVD, and eventually managed to entice a disc to become a startup disk.
i intended to rebuilt from 10.4 upwards, so decided to burn the contents of my docs folder onto CD. went to put them on the CD but all i got were aliases to the original documents. i tried once more with no luck. by now my trash was full of many many aliases, so i emptied the trash. when that was completed my documents folder had completely disappeared along with 600MB of files. my use of Macintosh is since 1985, so i think i know how not to trash original documents .
i am currently preparing another HD with Disk Warrior on it to try to get back some of the "erased" files (there was a version of the 1984ish OS 0.9 there - you could put disks inside folders 8). has anyone else experienced this "disappearing files" problem? has anyone got any realistic suggestions? this is such a basic disc management situation that it should never occur ot ever be able to occur. i am not at all a happy chappy right now
G3 B/W 400 Tower   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   webserver.com.au

Thanks for the suggestion of Whatsize. It didn't reveal any invisible folders with my data inside.
Whatsize from <http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/> is intriguing in showing how much garbage is on the HD. It was surprising to see caches that I thought had been deleted were still on the disk.
I am currently back to 95% of files restored from other sources and i'm recovering my distributed assets from the net.
g3 b/W 400 Tower   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   webserver.com.au
g3 b/W 400 Tower   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   webserver.com.au

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