Upgraded To Leopard, lost files & user settings?

Trying to update from Panther to Leopard on 1.25 Ghz iMac, used the Archive & Install. It looked like a successful install until the very end, whereupon the warning "Installation Failed due to problem migrating user data, try again." Perhaps foolishly, I did try again. This time, no error messages.
However, upon restart, the "Welcome" screen came up, as though I was a new user or had used the Erase option, which I hadn't. I thought this wasn't right, tried restarting in safe mode. This time, I tried to migrate data from existing volume. It came up with the user name, a good sign I thought. Then, it said that migration had failed, due to a folder buried in iPhoto with too long of a name.
Thinking I was smart, I started up the computer in target firewire mode, connected to another computer. I found the folder, shortened the name, exited firewire mode and restarted. Also ran Diskwarrior to rebuild directories.
After restart, migration from "another volume" worked fine, but now no documents folder, empty iPhoto folder, mail lost it's settings, etc. The only thing which remains is the user name.
I noticed a folder with a lot of .plan files, decided to run the Leopard installer again, thinking that it would use these .plan files to resurrect the missing files/settings. No such luck.
How can I retrieve the missing settings and files? The disk appears to be fine in disk 1st aid and DiskWarrior.
Thanks!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
iLife is not part of the OS. iLife is on the system restore disks that came your Mac. You can restore it using these disks - do a Custom Install.
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