User Settings All Lost

Please Help,
I am trying to install Photo Shop Elements 3, it installs ok, but I keep getting errors when I try to start the program - "Could not fully start the application because of invalid personalization information."
So I followed Adobes instructions - http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/326496.html
But still got the same error.
So I logged into Administrator and installed from there, all went ok again.
Now I get "Can't find workspace folder"
and now all my settings in my user login are gone , all my startup programs , the deskttop image, safari's preferences and who knows what else. Mail wants to setup as new.
Oh what has happened ...
Please Please Help
Rodney.

I tried first, installing in my normal account, 3 Times. But it would give me the error "Could not fully start the application because of invalid personalization information."
So than I tried to install in Administrator account, it still would not work.
Now when I log in to my normal account , all my settings are gone, Mail, Safari everything . Now it wont keep any settings between reboots.
There must be a way of resetting, I can see all my info in libary eg email address, widgets etc
iTunes still has all my purchased music and podcasts, but it wants to go thru the start up. also
I did not change the user name in finder
I have run disk utility and repaired disk permissions twice and verified the disk. This shows no problems.
What can I do ???
Rodney.

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