Looks like this was my fault - I was testing some things to try to understand the whole process of getting X running (because of the recent bugs in the /usr/bin/startx script) and had put some things in ~/.xinitrc by mistake!
Everything appears to be working just fine now. Sorry about that! -- Jon-o Addleman - http://redowl.dyndns.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]