Problems after repairing disk with Mac OS X install Discs

Having been experiencing slowness in my iMac, I tried to verify disk and found that my HD Volume needed to be repaired. However, the "Repair Disk" button was gray. I later learned from online mac discussions that I should reboot my iMac with the Mac OSx install Disc. I followed the steps and then got the answer that there was nothing to be repaired.
The next thing I knew was that I could not get out of there. By choosing "Restart", I was bought back to choosing the language and installing the disc. Not wanting to do that I went around and around and finally had no choice but installing the Disc 1 and then 2. At one point, I was asked if I wanted to move previous files to the new location (don't remember the exact words), I said no. I was astonished to find out very soon that my computer was put back at its original state, meaning all the applications were empty.
I managed to get my safari and email (Microsoft Entourage) back. I transfered all photos from the "Previous System" folder to the present iPhoto. However, they are only sorted by year. all the categories and sub-categories that I so painstakingly created were gone, so were the keywords.
Among other problems, my iTune wouldn't open unless I have Mac OS X 10.4.9 (mine is 10.4.4). I am quite desperate at this moment. I know the previous settings are somewhere but have no idea how to bring them back.
I hope someone can help me get out of this mess. Thank in advance.
P.S. my iMac is much faster now. That is the only good news.
LN

There is an option to +select the drive to restart from+ (don't remember the exact wording) in the Installer's menu. If you previously set the startup disk to be the disc in the optical drive, it will continue to restart from the Mac OS X installation disk until you change it. Alternately, you could press and hold the Option key at startup to bring up Startup Manager. This will allow you to select the disk to use for startup. For future reference...
If you did a complete reinstallation of the OS, you need to select Software Update from the Apple menu. This will get to you to the latest version of Tiger, which is 10.4.11.

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