nautilus broken for user account but not root

[Ben Vitale]

On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 18:43, Jim Cornette wrote:
> > 
> try renaming .gnome .gnome2 .gnome_private .gnome2_private to *.old and 
> then trying to startx again. All your ICON's and things should be like 
> as a first time user. If you can login successfully now, you can copy 
> needed stuff from the old files into the newly created ones. I usually 
> delete the damaged directories and start clean.
> 

After renaming to *old, my desktop came up blank (even worse).. but
deleting the newly created ones and renaming back brought my desktop
back, so in a roundabout way it worked out :) Thanks.  

Ben