Playing with FireFox made several of my files vanish. [Mac]

Hi, I posted this over in the FireFox Mozilla forum and somebody said I should go over and post it here. Hope you can help!
I was playing around in FireFox 3 on the mac-attempting to create a new user account. You know, go into Terminal and type something or other to open up a program, and add in a new user.
Suddenly, several pictures on the desktop just vanished. They didn't move. They just vanished immediately. I noticed a couple of folders gone too. They weren't directly on the desktop, but in another folder, that was on the desktop (Desktop > Folder > folder containing files).
I did a search for these items-nothing. I restarted the computer-nothing. I quickly talked to a friend and for the next several days we've been trying all sorts of restoration things, but I think they're gone.
What the heck happened? I would go back and try and take a picture of the problem, but what's the problem? Everything was going smoothly. Plus, I wouldn't want to risk it happening again.
Specs:
FireFox Version - It might be "525.18", but I think it's the latest version of FireFox, FireFox 3.
OS - Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger) on a MacBook.
Extensions - I installed Tamper Data just for kicks, but I never ran it on FireFox 3. If there's any add-on that might have automatically been installed, then that I guess.
Thanks!
- Jomskylark / sky_lark

Hi, I don't think it was FF3, but certainly what you did in Terminal!
If you could remember some of what you typed it would help greatly.
It sounds a bit like you may have done this, many have...
Return to default desktop, apparent "loss" of home directory...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854
BTW, the place to make a New User is in System Preferences>Accounts, then the little + sign.

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