Migration Assistant / Interrupted Transfer

Hello, I have been working on a friend's PowerMac G4 QuickSilver 933 MHz. Her 60 Gig IBM DeskStar ("DeathStar") HD was failing. We installed a new drive and fresh copy of MacOS 10.3.5 from retail CDs and updated to 10.3.9. We had the old drive in an external FW enclosure and were using Migration Assistant to copy over her two users. The first user came over fine but about halfway through bringing over her stuff (she was the Admin) the drive died!
Here is the problem. Her user folder only has a few of the needed folders/files/applications. For example, there is no "Applications" folder. So when she logs herself in and launched Safari, nothing happens because there is no Safari.app in her Home folder. Her Home folder is corrupt.
We created a new user for her under a different name. This seems to work OK. Can we delete her original "Corrupt User"? Will there be admin problems?
What's a Mother to do? Thanks! (:-)

Yes you can delete the "corrupt" users files. Also, make sure that account is not listed in the Accounts System Prefs. If so, you can delete that as well.

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