okay, first off, i know i screwed up. I installed Beryl on my Mandriva 2007 system according to
http://symbolik.wordpress.com/2007/0...mandriva-2007/
more or less, and everything was okay... the nifty ia ora theme wasn't the same minus the window decoration, but everything was quicker... anyway, i guess i played around with the beryl settings too much, because the window decoration dissappeared and when i restarted it hung, (and continues to hang), at startup. so i can't login to reset to default, so my next move would be to login as root and copy my home directory/delete the user account/ and add a new account-copy the home directory. It is set to autologin as the user though and i don't know what to do.