My imac all of a sudden reverted to it's original state

My normal desktop, my mail app, my ichat app all is requesting for me to set them up again, what just happened here? i noticed this last night. I had my mac on all day with energy saving so that the display is sleeping while the computer is running and i went to use my mac and noticed that it seems as if all my settings were somehow erased. opening itunes today seems like i just download an update and i have to click on the agreements. ichat is requesting me to set up my accounts, mail is requesting the same info. luckily i have all my photos in iphoto and my songs in my library. Why is this happening? how can I fix this? please help.

I checked the console logs and got these messages, I will copy and paste. I don't know what they mean.
4/17/09 3:57:18 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.gravityapps.searchlight.server[7184]) posix_spawn("/Users/Dee/Library/PreferencePanes/Searchlight.prefPane/Contents/R esources/frontend/script/mongrel", ...): No such file or directory
4/17/09 3:57:28 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.gravityapps.searchlight.server) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
4/17/09 3:57:48 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.gravityapps.searchlight.server[7193]) Bug: launchdcorelogic.c:3108 (23714):2: chdir(j->workingdir) != -1
Can you help explain what they mean Nerowolfe?

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