MACBOOK strange stuff

I turn on my MacBook this morning and the imovie icon is now a question mark, my photos in iphoto are gone. All my photos are gone. Basically most of my programs are reset back to the way the day I bought the computer. Even my desktop background has disappeared. Even my mighty mouse bluetooth has been removed!
Help!

Sounds like this may be your problem.
Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 or later: Return to default desktop, apparent "loss" of home directory
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854
Mort

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> Jim,
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