Okay, barring i'm an idiot.
here's what happened, I got the second disc of 9.1 and it was a bit corrupt not too sure
but anywayz (the cd was burnt in windoze so there...) the first disc was only partially done.
I got the second disc, and the only part messed was the gnome section, the rest i could read fine, only it wouldn't boot as well. So i mounted it and updated from there...
I get a few error msg's but x seems to run fine, only been running it for teh last half hour, so i'lm pretty sure there are inherent problems...
(cp'd the lib dir in the live area from the cd to the root lib dir)
going to recompile meh kernel later on..

try swaret instead of upgrading from disc