Lion Reinstall opens new account with no admin rights

The story so far is that I very stupidly deleted the contents of my 'Private' folder with catastrophic consequences when I went to restart. I left the contents in the trash but when I went to restart, I simply got the apple logo and spinning wheel. Using my iPad, I went through various options to try reboot before learning that I could reinstall the operating system (Lion) from the recovery disk. This I did, upon which it asked me to sign up as a new user etc. - I followed all the instructions and got started again. However I cannot now access any of my files, even though I can see them on the hard drive (I "do not have permission to see the contents of the files"). When I try to use System preferences, it looks as though it might start up, but then just doesnt. I have reinstalled the whole thing again, but t just went back to asking me to login with the username I set up upon the first reinstall. I never used to have to put in any password - it just started up straight away. I am the only user of the computer so have no need for user accounts. I cant seem to find any info on this problem. Can someone help?
Much appreciated.

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