Music doesn't have 'albums' anymore, just playilists, composers, songs etc.. What have I done?

A few days ago I bought a new album, by mistake checked it in 'selected albums only' for sync - then only that album was on my iPhone. I reverted it back on iTunes to all music library, but instead of 'albums' in 'more' I have that one album... How do I change it - I like to select albums when listening to music!

You can control what is synced from your library to your iDevice very easily.  When the device is connected, selected in the sidebar in iTunes (press Ctrl-S to enable the sidebar if you don't see it) then click on the Music tab.  This gives a range of options from copying the whole library to restricting the sync operation to copy specific songs, albums, artists, or playlists.  I find the last of these most useful, so that I can have one or more playlists that I can update so that their contents are synced the next time I connect a specific iDevice,
On your second issue, you should be aware that - unless you make some configuration changes:
each Windows user account on a PC has a separate iTunes library
any iDevice can only be synced with one iTunes library at a time - and when it detects a different library it'll remove any previously loaded media as part of the sync operation
Therefore, when you created a new Windows user you also created a new iTunes library, and even though you copied some content over your iPhone recognized the "user 2" library as new.  Unless you want to reconfigure your PC to share library content between different user accounts (and though this can be done, its the whole library that's shared, not parts of it) your best bet is to switch back to the original user account and learn how better to control what is selected when you sync your iPhone.
If you see that there is:
music missing from your iTunes library that you think should be there, and/or
music on your iPhone that isn't in the library on the PC
report back - there are ways to address both situations.

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