Lost user account

I am new to this discussion group, but have been reading all the posts for hours trying to find a solution to my problem. Not successful... I've joined up and am posting my problem. Hopefully someone out there can help.
I have recently updated my OS from Tiger to Leopard. I had several log in accounts set up and they were all working fine after the update... until now. Suddenly one of the accounts no longer appears in the list - but strangely enough its folder still exists in the user folder on the hard drive. I switched to logging in by typing the account name and password but still it does not recognize the existence of the folder. When I tried to set up another user with the same name it told me that this folder already existed and wanted to know if I wanted to use it. I said yes, but still the name of the account will not appear in the list, nor can I manually log into it. I have been working on this problem for many hours and really need a solution.

Your best bet is to delete the bad account, saving its data (put into /Users/Deleted Users/disk image), recreate the account using the same username/password combo, log into it, mount the disk image, and simply transfer everything from the image to the corresponding places in the newly created account. Log out and back in and you should be back in business.

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