A few (dodgy ) ideas as I haven't got XP Pro running right now.

1. Try recreating the account with the same permissions and password, and see what you can find....recycle bin etc.

2. Create a current recovery point, then go back to a recovery point before you deleted the accounts. By rights it should have saved my documents and my pictures, or it wouldn't be much use ? Afterwards return to the recovery point you just created.

3. Have a look at what is in the windows temporary files and ESPECIALLY what is within the word processing package. You may well find that the WP's autosave has created "temporary" copies of his documents in that. He probably only saves his manual saves to "my documents"

4. Try recovery software as already suggested.

Good Luck!