How to reset guest user

Hi,
I'm new to lion. I tried to manipulate the guest user account so it would function as a guest user (deleting all the private stuff after log out) but keeping my preferences like dock, desktop, grid settings, ...
I used this link: http://www.michaelsmac.com/modules.php?file=article&name=News&sid=394
but something went wrong. (Later I discovered this was posted prior to Lion so this could be the problem)
The result is that on start up of the user account it also shows my terminal open and the last webpage I visited (the link above).
Quiting these and log out/ log in again does not resolve this problem.
I did the backup like sugested in the link but I'm not able to use it
I can see it in system/library/
Anyone can help me on how to recover the original guest settings without having to reinstall the complete OSX ?
Many thanks !

Why can't you use the "backup" as suggested?
The second and third lines of the recovery hint will likely need sudo appended in front of the commands.

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