Mac book deletes my files

So i just got my first mac the other day, and i transfered all my music and pics and files over. But when i restarted my computer it was all gone. I put them in the pictures and music folder on my mac. But when i turned it on today they were all gone. If i search i can get them but where did they go?
Also i noticed that at the bottom where all the apps are i have a question mark in place of imovie and i cant open imovie.
One more thing several of the widgets i downloaded and put on my dashboard are gone and my settings have returned to the settings that were in the dashboard when i first got my computer.
If anyone knows anything please let me know

Open the Users folder on your hard disk and look for your items in the folders inside; if you find some, there are a few ways of retrieving them.
1. If some but not all of the items which were in your home folder are now in another folder, drag them to the same location in your home folder.
2. If you've previously renamed your home folder without updating the home property in the NetInfo Manager, rename it back to the original setting or change the home property of your user's records in the NetInfo Manager to point to the new location without changing or deleting anything else. Log out and back in.
3. If you have FileVault enabled, double-click the sparseimage file, enter a password if needed, and move your data from there to the /Users/Shared/ folder.
If some of the folders in the Users folder have a red circle and you've only created one account on the system, select that folder, choose Get Info from the File menu, click the padlock in the Ownership & Permissions section, and change the owner to yourself.
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