ITunes library is gone, as is iPhoto..for no apparent reason!

My computer was running strangely (entourage was asking me for my macmail password and then rejecting it) so I restarted my computer. My first clue that there was a larger problem was that my destop looked completely different, the toolbar at the bottow had changed, there was a strange icon on the toolbar asking me if I wanted to load Leopard and since I didnt download it and wasnt sure what this was I trashed it. My iPhotos and iTunes are completely empty and Entourage does not work at all and all my information there appears to be gone. So far everything else seems to be working. Earlier today I was moving around files but I did not erase anything. I am really lost and I dont know what is going on, can someone help me? am I even posting in the right place?

Hi again,
I was told on the IRC to try the following commands:
xset -dpms
xset s off
and
kdesu "xset -dpms"
kdesu "xset s off"
But unfortunately, the problem remains the same...

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