I activated Filevault, and now all my settings and files are gone. What happened?

I decided to activate Filevault on my macbook, and now that it is complete with encrypting my home folder, and deleting the unencrypted one, I have nothing. None of my documents are here, all of my settings are wiped. The only thing that remains are my installed programs. What happened? Also, when I go to "Security," it says Filevault is off, and when I turn it on, it tries to re-encrypt my home folder. What is happening?!

It also just happened to me..
My OS is Windows XP Home : SP3
I don't know if it will work on Vista or 7.. I have Win 7 on my laptop but haven't tried it yet since the restore feature in it is different from XP.
If your lucky enough to have set your windows "system restore" in a regular basis like mine. You can use it and it will recover all your bookmarks and saved passwords. Then you can screen capture all your saved passwords and export your bookmarks for future use. Compress it with winRAR and encrypt it with your most common password so that no can easily hack it.
Do it at your own risk, don't blame me if something happens to your computer. My restore date is only 1 day old.. If your restore point is a week or a month old, it can affect your computer since a lot of updates have been applied in your system. After I did it, I had a problem with my Antivirus, I just uninstalled it and reinstall. I don't know of other thing that can happen in your case. I'm just trying to help and give you an option. Maybe you can also save another restore point before doing so..
Note: After doing this, Aurora will still appear since you restored your system. If you try uninstalling it again and doesn't respond. Try to install it again and choose upgrade. Run it for a while or leave it as it is, it doesn't matter. Then go to Add/Remove Programs and uninstall it again. Now, don't click the "Remove minefield personal data" as posted by "the-edmeister".
Good luck and hope this helps not only to you but for others as well..
Cheers...

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