How to recover previous "user"

Hi,
I had to reinstall snow leopard and was wondering how I can recover all the previous settings from the user account that I used before.
I'm unable to access the account when I type in the previous username/password at the log in screen, but under my new user account, the stuff under my previous account, is under a folder "users."
Any help is appreciated, thanks!

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Guava101 wrote:
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which I did and later on I found my previous system in a folder. After a few days I used software updates from apple website and my previous system folder got replaced by a developer folder with a pic of a hammer.
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