Urgent Assistance Needed: All Documents deleted after setting system-wide viewing preferences for Finder

I got myself into some trouble...
Following the guide here to force a default Folder view to sub folders: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/10488/system-wide-finder-view-preferenc es
Which is:
There is a simpler way.
In the Terminal, navigate to your $HOME directory: cd ~
Remove all the .DS_Store files:find ~ -name ".DS_Store" -depth -exec rm -f {} \;
Relaunch finder going to: Force Quit → Finder
Set your global preferences using ⌘J and press the Use as default button.
Now, every folder you open or create will have the new settings.
I now have the existing Folder structure in tact for Documents, but every single file is gone (in my entire Documents directory).
Naturally I'm thinking two things:
1) Oh no. I knew better than to go down this path without knowing exactly what I was doing.
2) How do I "get my files back..."
I'm not sure if they're just not viewable or if they were deleted. Essentially everything I've configured on the machine (From Apple login to mouse scroll reversal) has been undone. I don't have TimeMachine set up yet - I brought two remote hard drives to work today to get it done but they're both NTFS so I couldn't progress.
I'm reasonably technical but new to Mac.
Advice is greatly appreciated... I'm GREATLY distressed at the moment...
<Edited by Host>

Ok so "DS_Store files are used by Mac OS X to store folder specific metadata information." Supposedly they get recreated... except I didn't get a nice smooth transition of newly created invisible, instead every file on my machine is "gone."

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