Fedora new user issues

[ArtyMcSwizzle]

-I installed fedora core 2 (with GNOME).
-Then I had issues with a corrupt partition table on a second hard drive, and fedora not wanting to load with said harddrive connected.
-So I booted up a gentoo live cd.
-I mounted both hard drives (secondary drive, and the drive with fedora on it).
-I transfered files off the secondary drive to the fedora drive.
-Repartitioned (linux) and formated (mke2fs -j) the secondary hard drive.
-I rebooted into fedora to find that my desktop was all screwed up. No fedora icons, no fedora background. I also recieve two error messages:
-"error accessing XKB configuration, probly internal X server problem"
-"Failed to load image redhat-web-browser.png"

-However when I log into root everything works fine

I imagine this is a permission problem, but I don't know which files to change to fix the problem. Or perhaps there is a group this new user needs to be a part of? Thanks in advance!

[ph34r]

For the missing png file, it is just trying to load an icon on the panel bar. For the XKB problem, you have to comment out a line in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file (maybe XF86Config-4 too).

find the line that says

Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"

And comment it out.

[hard candy]

It definitely sounds like the user either lost the ability to properly access the xorg/xfree config file or that the users personal desktop config file in the home directory was corrupted. I'm not sure what the user desktop file in Fedora would look like (I'm pretty sure it has some differences from Slackware's), but maybe look on the fedora site for an example. See if you can restore it.
I think the easier solution is to try the desktop file restore route first.