HELP: Lost contents of the Owner folders

[Eduardo Pietri]

I had to create a new administrator account in my Win XP Home computer to
get rid of the other one. When deleting the original account I selected
KEEP FILES to keep the contents of the folders, however it didn't.

Now a bunch of things have changed... I do not see some programs that are
installed in the Start menu; some programs don't run; I had to re-install
some of them, but they still soem of them don't rundidn't run.

By this time, the newly created user account has a bunch of new settings
under its LOCAL SETTINGS folder.

Any way I can tell my PC that now the 'Owner' is this newly created account,
so that if a program needs to they go to these set of folders? Or something
like that. I went back to a previous configuration using the Recovery
feature, but it didn't bring them back.

Thanks,
Eduardo