I had a complete hard drive failure about 2 days ago and dropped my notebook off at the nearest authorized apple service center to get a replacement drive installed. I'm traveling for business right now, so I didn't have my original install disks for Panther, so in order to get a bootable drive, I purchased a new copy of Tiger (I was about ready to upgrade anyway).
I get my machine back and spend all day downloading programs, creating new bookmarks, setting preferences (you know, taking the useless crap out of the dock and putting my own stuff in, etc). I restart the machine, and it comes back like It's the first time I've ever turned it on. The desktop, dock, and display preferences are all back to their defaults, my safari bookmarks are nowhere to be found, and iTunes can't find my iTunes library, etc, etc, etc.
What's going on here?
Things that may be contributing to this:
The freakin' idiots at the service center mispelled my name when installing Tiger so that my admin account is "jeremmy" instead of "jeremy", and I tried to rename it "home" to get away from it altogether.
It seems that when I changed the name of the home folder from "jeremmy" to "home" it created a new folder altogether, and even when I manually dragged all of the folders files and apps into the "jeremmy" folder (the one it still sees as the real home folder), they don't stick around after a restart.
What's going on? I'm stuck and frustrated here.
-NewSushi
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