This morning, my computer looked like it did when I first brought it home.  A
blue background with the Windows 2000 startup message on it.

I had lost all the desktop shortcuts, settings, explorer favorites, etc.,
but I found those in another <username> folder and was able to restore them.  
However, Outlook is another story.  After having to reconfigure Outlook with
the correct POP settings, etc. , I found that all of the contacts and e-mail
in my personal folders and in the inbox were gone.   I searched for a .pst
file on my hard drive, but the search found no files with .pst extension.

Are my inbox messages and contacts lost or is there a magic registry setting
that I can set to recover this info?   Please help!