Renamed Admin acct

I renamed my admin acct Thursday night and when I started up again all I see is the sparseimage information. My Safari and iMail don't open either so I'd placed the Xcode Tools CD in the drive that night meaning to do a repair from it but I forgot to do it and shutdown. When I started the computer it was still in there.. I don't know if that had something to do with the problems either. I removed the CD w/o doing anything with it.
The sparseimage was created by Apple when I sent my ibook in to them to correct a recall problem in like 2005/2006. I was told to leave that information where it was and to use the computer as usual. Well, I have been for the last 4 years or so and now I do not see any of that information (docs, photos, music, etc) nor settings since I logged in yesterday evening.
I tried changing my name back and rebooting but the sparseimage info is all I'm seeing. I even took the file vault off, but nothing has changed. I didn't have a secondary acct set up...I do now. I don't have a backup either.
I was surprised to learn online that changing the home folder/admin acct could wipe out my info without even so much as a patch or warning box from Apple!! I'm beyond upset right now, but I just need to know if anything is retrievable.
Please help!

See the following: Recover from renaming your Home folder and OS X- How to change user short name or home directory name.

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