my home folders have become empty! (Modified by Felix A)

[Felix A]

Hello all.  I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I was in the 
middle of swithing users last night when I noticed errrors telling me 
that such and such volume was missing, etc. So for example, iTunes was 
playing and suddenly, it couldn't find the music. I restarted and the 
compupter started up, but now my desktop is blank and I have what looks 
like the default configuration for a new account. My dock items are 
gone, no pictures in the iPhoto library, no movies, music, etc. 
Fortunately, the data is all there. I can see it when I browse throught 
the partition that has the user folders in it. The startup volume and 
my home folders are on separate partitions and it has never been a 
problem. Has anyone ever had this happen? How do I get it back. When I 
log in as one of the users, I get the message that "Home folder not 
found". When I log in under the predominant account, I don't get this 
message, but nevertheless, the my stuff is all gone.

I have run DiskWarrior and everything checked out just fine. Moreover, 
I had previously cloned the startup volume to a different, albeit very 
small secondary drive (there is only like 500MB of space remaining). I 
can boot up with that drive (also 10.3) and it picks up my home folder 
just fine. So the problem appears to be with my System folder somewhere 
on my boot up volume?

I have also repaired permissions on the startup volume.  Is there a 
directory that I can just copy and paste from my cloned panther 
partition to my real startup panther volume without risking too much, 
or a preference file?

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