Please Help! My Powerbook is deleting my files!

Hello,
I wanted to first say thank you to those of you who answer questions on this forum, and keep this great resource running!
My question involves a problem I've previously had the Genius Bar at my local Apple store look at a few times, although this time it happend it has been less severe so far.
Here's the story....
About 3 months ago my computer had a problem similar to this guy's problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=413459
Essentially the dock and the dock icons reset to factory settings, along with all the programs within the dock. I lost my iTunes library, my iCal information, my iPhoto library, bookmarks in Safari and some other things.
I first thought the worst had happened and wiped my hard drive clean, did a clean install and reinstalled all my information off of my backups. I also consulted the Genius Bar after reinstalling everything and they figured this fixed everything too. It did fix the problem for a little while, until disaster struck again, with the same problem happening again.
This time I didn't wipe anything or reinstall anything, I took it straight to the Genius Bar. They decided it was the Hard Drive and replaced it. It's been about a month since they replaced the Hard Drive and things had been going well until I bought a RAM upgrade. I followed Apple's instructions perfectly to upgrade the RAM, replacing the factory 512k with 2 GB. Everything appeared fine once I started the machine up. The "About this Computer" showed, and still shows that I have the 2GB installed. Within the same start-up I opened iTunes and an error message popped up telling me my library was corrupted and that it was labeling it as damaged.
I quickly restarted, and bam! factory dock settings.. I've got the computer running now, because i'm afraid what will happen after further restarts. If I'll lose more and more. I did check all of my programs, and with the exception of iCal, iTunes, and iPhoto. Everything is working fine. I lost the dock icons, but all my information seems to still be there.
Does anyone know how to fix this, or better yet what keeps causing this problem? I'm very interested to find out if others have the same problem.
Any help or insight into this problem would be very appreciated.
Thank you in advance...
Bryan

Hi Bryan,
Are you, by chance, renaming your Home Directory (the User's folder with the House icon)? Your symptoms certainly suggest that's what has happened. The following KB Document will explain and if indeed you renamed your Home Directory, follow the steps detailed in there and all will be well again:
Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 or later: Return to default desktop, apparent "loss" of home directory
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854
RD

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