Debian reported that I had updates available. They were the libraries I'd downgraded.
I updated them so I could dig around and figure out what was broken. My friend had taken a look and he did `ldd /usr/bin/gnome-shell` and noticed that libjson.so.0 was not found. The file was there, but it wasn't found. When I updated, there were no problems. I restarted to give my computer every opportunity to break and it still gave me no trouble. ldd shows that libjson is alive and kicking. I'm at a loss to explain why installing that update once caused major problems but installing it again worked like a charm. But there you have it. - Petey
