Restoring Old User Info and programs

Hi, I just got my macbook back from repair and the harddrive is wiped clean...had to start over with new user name and registration.
Before I sent it away (again), I backed up my user profile on a firewire drive.
How do I properly re-install this old user information?
Can I still install and use all my new programs saved in old User?
What do I need to be careful of?
Old User info is in 10.4.7---clean Mac back from repair in 10.4.6
If someone could give me a step-by-step sort of reply or point me in the direction of a support article I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks

Fritz,
All the info you need is contained in this kbase article, but there is one item from this article that is somewhat out of date....
When you get to the section of the article that describes the 2 commands to use in Terminal, use this single one instead:
<pre style="overflow:auto; font-family: 'Monaco'; font-size: 10px">chown -R username:username /Users/username</pre>
In the above command, you will replace all instances of "username" with your own short name. So, if your short name is "fred," for example, you will type the following exactly:
<pre style="overflow:auto; font-family: 'Monaco'; font-size: 10px">chown -R fred:fred /Users/fred</pre>
Otherwise, follow all the directions for "manually" restoring your HOME folder.
Keep in mind that this will not reinstall applications that you had installed before. It will, however, restore all of the settings and data for those applications. Once you have reinstalled the applications, themselves, you will be right back where you were.
Scott

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