Wierd thing happened after a small change

Hello,
I simply labelled the Macintosh HD to a Red colour and renamed my home folder "home" instead of "stephenmackrill" and it's like the first time I have opened programs such as Mail, Safari, Proteus and probably others which are account related? Mail for one had a large mail that was going to be sent and it seems all my messages had to be downloaded from the .Mac server. I tried renaming the home folder back to "stephenmackrill" and un labelling the HD, but nothing has changed.
I have lost a lot if this is not reversable.
Steve

I think your problem here arose when you renamed your home folder - not the best idea.
I think you may need to boot in as single user and check in Users home many folders there are and if you have a home one as you expect.
When you boot in as yourself, your home folder icon should look like a house not a folder.
If you have messed things up, I's suggest adding a new user and then copy the contents of the renamed folder into the new one - you should be back to normal.
Then you can delete the old user under your name.

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