Dell D80 Laptop
XP SP3

I was running a System Restore b/c my IE7 was kinda funky. I am not sure this is the cause of the problem or not, but while it was doing the restore, I walked away and forgot that the laptop was on battery and would go on Stand By mode. Anyway, when I came back the laptop wouldn't come back up from Stand By. So I force shutdown the laptop. When it came back up, it said the restore was successful. But I lost everything. Documents and settings and all. As if it has been restored to the very first day I bought the laptop. I have done numerous "undo last restore" and a whole bunch of other restore points and it won't work.

Now, the stuffs are still in the computer. I know for sure b/c I did a search on one of my documents and it showed up. Then I drilled down to C:\Documents and Settings\User name\user name's Documents, I saw all of them there too and they can be opened just fine. Same for all the Outlook 2007 files. I just finish backing them up to a DVD.

However, when I open the "My Documents" link, I cannot see the files there. When I startup Outlook, it asked me to setup again. I think I am safe now having the files backup. But how do I repair XP back to its normal working state?