User Accounts iTunes, Apps disappear each logout/logon after 10.4.4 upgrade

My whole desktop goes back to default - my files and iTunes and applications are under a username1, username 2, username3, etc. each time I logoff and log back on. I tried the username_new and idisk restore and notheing helps. It's like Groundhog Day (the Bill Murray movie) -- I configure my desktop, restore my Dock with my apps, reimport my iTunes library and then logoff and back on and it all 'disappears' and goes back to like it was when I first got it out of the box. I upgraded to 10.4.4. I try to rename my accounts and my permissions on iDisk are invalid, my keychain keeps popping up and asking for my password every 5 to 10 minutes, etc., even though I gave permissions in keychain access, etc. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

If you have all your files backed up including all the folders, like Documents etc then Delete the account and then in the Users folder make a folder with the shortname of the account you want to setup then copy all the folder which were in your original user folder, like Music and Documents etc into there.
Then make a new account, ensuring the shortname is the same as the folder you've created in the users folder, then it will say that a folder already exists in there with the same name, do you want to use this folder as your home folder, say yes, and it should be ok from there.

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