Help!!! Lost all my settings!

Help! Just lost all my settings. Didn't do nything, just went to look at my Mail. Clicked on Mail in dock, and found that all my emails had gone from all boxes. Closed Mail and re-opened. It showed a box headed "Wecome to Mail" with "You have no email accounts configured to use Mail. Please enter the following information to send and receive email." The address book was empty. Clicked on Safari and found all Bookmarks gone and my homepage was now set to Apple instead of the previous setting to Google. Clicked elsewhere and got the beachball.
Rebooted machine (had to press the button.) When it came back the dock had reverted from the previous small magnifiable setting to what seems to be the original "out of the box" dock (ie all my additions that I had previously added, had gone. Mail and Safari were in the same boat (ie no data.) Also iCal has lost all it's entries.
Help! What's happened? What can I do?

My first reaction is to suspect your log-in.
Did you log-in (perhaps by mistake) as a different user ?
This might explain your being treated as if you just logged in for the first time with all the attendant defaults.
Is this Mac used by persons other than yourself ?
If not, do you recall setting the Administration rights to your account?
If yes, can you get the Admin to look at the state of your files.
Things to look for: could a folder have been moved or deleted by mistake?
Last but not least, do you have a (current) backup?
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 667 MHz, 1GB

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