Reintsall of osx and loss of files

In a fit of inspiration I decided to clean up my daughter's iBook and while trying to get to disk utility ended up with an upgrade of OSX 10.2 getting put on the iBook.
I attempted to exactly duplicate her userID and password after the install but am not seeing any of the old files or apps. Have I committed an unrecoverable error?
If not any advice appreciated? Thanks
iBook 700MHZ G3 Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Ali, There are two users - the first is Katherine Sullivan, the second is Katie Sullivan - both are admins. The first was set up after the upgrade/install. The second to mirror the user that existed prior to the install/upgrade.
In the first user accessed via Macintosh HD - users; there are four files. The first is DELETED USERS - KATIESULLIVAN - SHARED and KATHERINESULLIVAN with the house. In KATHERINESULLIVAN are DESKTOP - DOCUMENTS - LIBRARY - MOVIES - MUSIC - PICTURES - PUBLIC - SITES. In DELETED USERS is a file katherinesullivan.dmg. In the file katiesullivan are the files: DESKTOP - DOCUMENTS - LIBRARY - MOVIES -MUSIC -PICTURES - PUBLIC - SITES. All with the exception of DESKTOP - PUBLIC and SITES are locked with insufficient privileges to open. When I change the privileges to open they are empty.
In the second user accessed via Macintosh HD - users; there are four files. The first is DELETED USERS - KATHERINESULLIVAN - SHARED and KATIESULLIVAN with the house. In the KATIESULLIVAN are DESKTOP - DOCUMENTS - LIBRARY - MOVIES - MUSIC - PICTURES - PUBLIC - SITES. All are unlocked, however when you click on DESKTOP you recieve a failed due to privileges message. When I change the privilege it opens but there are no files. The LIBRARY folder contains files, but there is nothing in them. (ASSISTANTS - AUDIO - CACHES - COLORPICKERS ... SCREEN SAVERS - SOUNDS; 15 FILES TOTAL) The PUBLIC file contains DROP BOX and the SITES file contains a folder IMAGES and the file INDEX.HTML
I believe this everything. Thanks for your continued efforts to resolve this.
Regards

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