User Account Pictures Disappear after Target Mode

My iBook was having motherboard problems, on it's last legs, so set up Quicksilver (G4 Tower) running Tiger in Target Mode, copied needed files. After restart, all user photos (you know, the Apple Pictures - leaf, flowers, dragonfly, baseballs, etc) disappeared. Any ideas? Thanks.
Anne

Is this the sequence of events?
Mac locked up, then refused to restart.
Disk Utilities....said there were problems which it was unable to repair.
You then did an Archive, and reinstalled the archive
/Users/Myfamily exists but you cannot log into it.
I'd say that the directory was corrupted at the beginning, and the problems have been carried along with the archive.
If the disk has errors that DU said it was unable to repair, you should not have proceeded until those errors were sorted out. The disk may even be failing, we don't know.
You could try booting into Safeboot mode as that runs the DU repair function, though that may not be enough as it previously could not repair it . Perhaps Diskwarrior may be needed.
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