Odd Files in Hard Drive

I performed a clean install of Leopard on two Intel macs today. One of the macs has some odd files named bin, cores, etc, mach_kernel, private, sbin, tmp, usr, var and Volumes in the hard drive window along with application and system folders that would normally be there. Should I trash these files? Should I be seeing these files?

Yep! Don't delete... Back in an earlier version of OS X Iwas logged into my computer through my wife's and those files were visible. I wondered why there was all this garbage on my machine and promptly deleted it all. When I went back to my computer to boot up I got something no Mac user should ever see: a black screen with white text a la DOS. AppleCare was able to deliver the fix over the phone, luckily.

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