PB G4 loses all user information

hey guys, i just bought my roommates older PB, and I just reloaded OS X 10.4.11 from the discs. After a couple days f changing preferences and getting the applications in line, the turned it off and turned it back on today to see everything had reverted back to the stock preferences. I lost my safari favs, folders on desktop, and other organized aspects, though it seems the couple downloads I got (Safari 4, security updates, Adium) are still there. Could this be a RAM failure? As Im a resent PC to Mac convert, I dont really know the steps to look into this. I couldnt find the relevant topics on here or random google searches. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

This might be related to this issue:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1876?viewlocale=en_US

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