Restarted and nearly everything is gone

After force closing a non-responsive program, I restarted my macbook pro and it prompted a user login, then opened as though this was the first time I had booted up this machine. It started the setup video and then asked to register it. At this time, all folders are still there but no files in any of them.. all applications are "there" but not able to open any of them, their icons all show as the TextEdit icon. Not even preinstalled apps are there.. My hard drive still shows 70gb in use and after some searching realized all if my music files are still in my itunes folder which accounts for about 30gb. I have no idea what to try to fix this or what went wrong? Anyone have any solutions?

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Try booting from your install disc. Select your language, and then go to "Utilities" on the menu bar and select Disk Utility. When it opens, select your hard drive in the left column and go to the First Aid Tab. Click on "Repair Disk" and repeat until there is nothing left to repair.
If you get any messages in red letters that say that Disk Utility can't repair the drive, you can try a stronger utility such as Disk Warrior.
When you have to do a forced shutdown like you describe, it is always prudent to repair the drive afterwards. The repair is to the complex software on the drive, which can get messed up with a forced shutdown.
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