I had been the only user on my machine, but I decied to create another account so my house mates can use my computer without potentially screwing up my stuff.

I had been using the default admin profile--stupid i know, but it didn't matter.
to be able to create the profile for my housemates i had to create an admin account first, which i did for myself. I lost all my prefernces and setting and stuff, but was able to get most of them back by going into the default profile and grabbing all the application data.

things are working fine for the most part. except for 2 things:

1. when i download things from firefox they don't actually show up on my desktop even though that is where they are supposed to download to.

2. i'm hainvg trouble connecting through my FTP client to the various servers i use. it will connect once after i start windows, but once i break the connection it wont connect again. i've tried multiple ftp clients (FTPx and Filezilla) and the problem is the same in both. I've restarted my network several times as well.

other than getting a new monitor changing the user accounts is the only major thing i've done to my computer recently.

any ideas?

Thanks