My account went haywire, please help!

Today I booted up OS X (on my MacBook) and it looks like it did when I first bought it. The dock has all the icons it did when I first got it. All my settings and changes are gone, iTunes is empty, documents are empty, my links in safari are gone, it's like a new computer.
The only explanation I can think of is that yesterday I was fooling around and in the finder I renamed the little house icon from "thansenapple" (what it always has been) to "Trent" (my own name). I renamed it by 'rightclicking' the text and chosing rename form the little menu.
Nothing happened at that moment, but when I was using Word later that night, it wouldn't look into my regular document file, it would instead look in a document file that was all blank, and I had to do some searching to find the file I wanted.
Well today I booted up and I got a new computer or something. After some more searching, I found that all my files are still there, they are under USERS. There are 3 files under the Users file: shared, thansenapple, and Trent. Also, right now my little house icon in the finder does not read "Trent" it reads "thansenapple".
I'm scared and confused. Did I just screw myself or is there an easy fix?

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