LOST MY PREFERENCES, SETTINGS, EMAILS, PHOTOS, ETC. - HELP!!

Question

Last night my computer was acting funny. So I restarted it. When I logged back into my account the first thing I noticed is that my Dock was back to it's default setting. Then I noticed the email was back to default, iPhoto, iTunes all back to default and all missing the files.
All my email is gone but all my applications, third-party software and files are still there. So I'm guessing my admin settings are gone.
After looking through the forum, I noticed that when this happens, it's usually because the HOME name has changed. This is not the case with me. The HOME name has not changed. What could be the reason for this loss?? How can I get all my settings, emails, photos and music back?? Will something like Disk Warrior fix this? (BTW, I'm not doing anything with the computer until I get some kind of feedback).
Thank You for your help in advance!

Answer 1

Allen
Well the permissions on your Library folder aren't right, and where are your Movies, Music, Public and Sites folders?
If we fix your Library permissions, you may possibly find a few things get better, so do that (copy and paste again):
chmod 770 ~/Libraryalthough there may be further problems inside that folder.
I should have asked for more information, since I didn't realise that
The original home name is PowerMac2 … "PowerMac2b", "PowerMac3", "PowerMac2_new" and "PowerMac2c" are all users I made
According to your output your user name should be PowerMac. I think we'll need to resort to Terminal again to find out exactly what you've done.
Open the Terminal (from /Applications/Utilities) and copy and paste the following into the Terminal window, one line at a time, with a return after each line:
id
ls -ln /Users
nireport . /users uid gid name realname home | awk '$1>500 {print $0}'Copy and paste all of the output (include your commands) and post it here.
If you have any idea what happened to those missing folders, say so.