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When you boot up do you just get a background, does the login screen come up?

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I'm new to linux myself so take what I'm going to say with a grain of salt as it may or may not be able to fix your problem.

This is what I would try myself at least.

try doing another install, not the upgrade, use your existing partitions, Useing the same options as your first install. You will get another chance to create user accounts. I would like to think that will work.

It may be overkill, or it might not work at all. Being that I just installed Mandrake 10.1 a few days ago myself. This is speaking from using windows for so long. There probably are better solutions out there, if they are easyer or not I don't know, but they are probably quicker.

If you can get to the graphical login change the user in the screen to root enter the root password , If this is successfull go to the menu (usually the star emblem} > System>configuration>kde>system>login manager. here you should be able to configure users .

Regards
Sharke