HELP! I've Deleted My Home!

When I was opening my hard drive to
look for something, I accidently
dragged my cursor over the "Home"
icon on the left hand side where
all the folders such as "Applications",
"Movie", "Music", "Desktop" etc. are.
When I did this, the icon vanished
in a cloud of "poof", similar to what
happens when you take out something
you had in your bookmark tool bar.
Did I delete this for good?
I don't even know all that it had
in it, but I do know it had all my
pictures, and now I can't find them!
Thanks to anyone who can help.
Rich

Hello Rich & Welcome to Discussions,
This is an easy fix, open Finder and go to "Users" and drag the Icon of the little house back to your finder window and it will magically reappear. You can also do this for any folder or application you use allot. And in case you didn't know, on the right side of your "Dock" on the other side of the seperator bar you can also drag folders, not Icons, but folders. When you do these two different things, Panther just creates an "Alias for that folder or icon so you can delete as need be, with no fear of accidently deleting anything.
Mic
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