Settings on ibook G4 changed

I have an ibook G4. The setting on the ibook suddenly went back to default. Nothing has been done to system preferences that I know of. No documents, music files, movies, pictures, or applications have been lost. However, I lost several widgets that I had downloaded. The dock also lost some icons and was resized. Why might this be so?

Did you by chance rename your home directory? See KB 107854, Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 or later: Return to default desktop, apparent "loss" of home directory.

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