Is there any way to change the default folder for new finder windows...

...Or even set a different folder as the "home folder"?
I am recovering from an incredibly messy archive and install which refused to allow me to save my old user accounts, instead moving them all into "Previous Systems". In my haste to get the machine working again I just dragged and dropped my old home folder into the /users/ directory and changed the "short name" of the new account to match it. IT worked, but now I have an incredibly irritating problem. That is now indeed my home folder, as appears in the sidebar of all finder windows, albeit under my new short name instead of my old one. All my documents in iWeb, Garageband, etc are working now and default to the new folder.
However, Finder has not recognized this, and every time I open a new Finder window or anything like that it defaults to the home folder created by the reinstall, which is now locked to this account (so all the folders have a red no entry sign on them). I would very much like to tell Finder to ignore this now defunct folder and default to my actual home folder instead - is there a way to do this without actually moving or changing any folders? Like a preference setting somewhere? I know there's the "Advanced Options" pane in Leopard but I've been completely unable to find anything like it in Tiger

Finder > Preferences > new Finder Window opens
[Recover from renaming your Home folder|http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/renamehomerecovery.html]
[My home folder and desktop are different than before|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1952.html]
[Return to Default Desktop, Apparent Loss of Home Directory|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1876]
[ChangeShortName tool|http://www.danfrakes.com/ChangeShortName.html]
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