System boots but cannot find user?

ok, so this has happened once before.
i attempted to force quit an app that was not responding, which worked, but then the "force quit" window would not close. and the dreaded spinning wheel just kept spinning over it.
so i restarted my machine, and upon restart, my system could not find the main user account. i received an error box, but stupid me didn't take a snapshot (i was afraid if i did so that the system would interpret that action as my wanting to keep these new settings) and restarted my machine again.
when i restarted, most things seemed to be normal EXCEPT the icons in my toolbar were all messed up. there were "?" for items that i had previously removed, and custom items that i had placed in there are now missing.
any clue why this would happen? and if so, can i just somehow "reset" these preferences without having to add/delete these things manually?
hm ...
thanks
- rebecca
Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

If only the Dock's contents have changed and the rest of your user data is intact(this includes application preferences and items on the Desktop), the problem may lie with the com.apple.dock.plist file in your account's /Library/Preferences/ folder. Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and enter ~/Library/Preferences/ as the folder's location; when this folder has appeared, control-click on the item named com.apple.dock.plist and choose Get Info from the menu which appears. Under Ownership & Permissions, check that you have Read & Write access to this file; if you do, the file's contents may be corrupt, in which case you may need to move it out of the Preferences folder and rebuild the Dock manually.
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