In the most specific, unemotional terms:

• Reinstalled os, using 11.10(1 month after release to skip initial issues that usually crop up).

• Configured system to my specifications(just ways of organizing config files, etc).

• Log out

• Log back in after after an hour or so...to find my home directory obliterated and just a few skeleton files existing.

• think oh well, try again (this has happened before with an install for reasons I've never been able to pinpoint, usually around install time with some sort of update but its never been a major recurring issue)

• same thing happens

• I thought something was awry, so I reinstalled again (another 20 minutes, meh)

• Set up system, arranged home directory a bit differently thinking maybe I tread on something I shouldn't have.

• log out, come back --- the same thing. Most of the directories I added were deleted (e.g. .xmonad which links to xmonad.hs in my portable config directory)

tl;dr every change I make in my home directory gets deleted.

The emotional part: UNACCEPTABLE. I need to configure my system the way I want, not get punched in the face everytime I make a change.

I'll willingly fill in details as needed, this was just a start to see if anyone can help, I've found no trace of this issue in a search.