Lost photo's & music PLEASE HELP

PLEASE HELP SOMEONE!!!!!!!
Long story but when I was playing music on itunes last week my Powerbook G4 froze. When I went to have a look I could not do anything. When the computer rebooted it would not accept my password and I was locked out.
After 2 hours on the phone to nick a lovely tech from apple, we have rebooted but I am not able to retreive information on our previous user name. I have lost 4.5 days of music and 850 photo's!!!! Devastation!!! He suggested I post to see if anyone had any ideas. When I go into my old user and try and open a file it says "no mountable file systems".
If anyone knows how I can try and retreive info please, please help me. Thanks

If Disk Utility gave a "no repairs needed" report, it almost clears the drives directory. I say almost, because often DiskWarrior finds problems that Disk Utility doesn't.
Worth a try, and in the link I placed under Disk Utility (above), is using fsck to check the disk.
Can you tell me what the file types were? I assume .jpg, .jpeg, .tiff and .mpeg4, .mp4, or .mp3....
Reason being, the error is often associated with .dmg (disk image) errors.
Also, because of the nature of the error message, there may be a way to mount the files using hdiutil. You can try and mount these files, in Terminal, from the command line using hdiutil, run as root:
$ sudo hdituil attach file name.dmg
Replace "file name.dmg" with the name of the file. This should properly mount the files, though I am having trouble getting it to work..........
Since I am still green when it comes to using Terminal (love to play, cause lots of problems, and learn as I go), if you would like to pursue this path, I would suggest checking this suggestion in the OS X Technologies: Unix forums. Post a question regarding mounting files that return the error "no mountable file systems", and see if someone will walk you through the process a bit better than I can.

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