Removing old private folders

I just recently upgraded from WinXP Home to WinXP Pro,
and had a heck of a time doing it. As it turns out, the
only way to get everything working properly after the
upgrade was to delete everything (not formatting as I
have 50GB of files that cannot be deleted) other than the
files that cannot be deleted, and install WinXP Pro
fresh. To save the trouble of losing all documents and
settings, I copied each user's documents and settings
folders into a neutral location that would not be
deleted. After setting up XP Pro and all user accounts as
they were before, I copied the files from the neutral
location into the new doc/settings folders. Everything
worked fine and all files are accessibile as they should
be, however now I am stuck with the neutral folder
holding everything else that was not copied over. In
fact, due to the file sharing properties that were set on
those folders before the upgrade/install, I cannot delete
them at all without getting an error telling me that I do
not have permission to do so. I booted in Safe Mode and
logged into the computer under the Administrator account,
went into the sharing and security UI in the folder's
properties, and set access to the folder to everyone so
that I can delete it. Unfortunately, the permissions were
NOT transferred through to the subfolders, more
specifically the folders that were holding the
permissions that were preventing me from deleting them. I
NEED THEM GONE! Any ideas?

Kronical