MacbookPro Resets itself after Restart

So I just got a brand new MBP C2D 2.16 15" 2 days ago. After adding all my favorite internet sites, my personal folder with pictures,music, etc. I restart my computer because Ichat is lagging badly and find out that my personal folder has been completely wiped off, the favorities on safari that I deleted are now back on.....
I rebooted MacOS X onto the drive again completely erasing everything and starting fresh. When I get back to the same place before with all my favorites added, my personal folder uploaded I tried installing parallels and I had to restart my computer and find out that again my folder is gone and favorites reset, along with some of the view options I set are also replaced to default settings, ichat was also reset to default...
Any help, before the 2nd time I did repair disk permissions and everything checked out ok and I had the new update both times installed

You didn't happen to rename your Home folder by any chance did you?
If you are the only user of the computer open your Users folder. You should see two folders in there. The User account folder and the Shared Folder. If you see a third folder with two of them looking like they could be your user account folder then one is probably an empty account folder and the other will have your stuff in it.
If your User folder was originally called ChrisB32 for example and you decided you didn't like that and changed it to Chris...well that's a big no no even though OS X will let you do it.
What happens is if you rename that ChrisB32 folder and then try to use a program that accesses the the User folder OS X will determine it is missing and create a new empty one called ChrisB32. Rebooting will cause OS X to boot using the newly created empty ChrisB32 folder and everything will revert to defaults. You settings will be in the Chris folder unseen by OS X.
It is just a guess as to what may be going on. Let me know if you find more than 1 candidate for what could be your User folder.

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