Lion upgrade removed users

I upgrade my 2008 imac from Snow Leopard. I have 7 user accounts (2 admin, 1 normal, 4 managed) and 5 of them (1 admin, 1 normal, 3 managed) were deleted when I upgraded to Lion. (The home directories were still there, but the accounts needed to be re-created. The only clue that I have is that the 2 accounts that were not deleted were the first two alphabetically.

HELP! Install deleted my admin account!  When I try to get support, it says I can't get support for my BRAND NEW system software because my hardware is too old!

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