Wish I knew what I did, but now when I try to login to Mandrake 9.2 the graphical login screen looks a bit simpler and includes all the machine names, root, daemon, mail, etc, over a dozen of them.
When I try to login with root or my user name it begins to load, blacks out and comes back to the login.
I can drop to the prompt and login as root but I don't know what to look for.