Spinning Cursor on boot up. Log in screen doesn't display

Hello all,

The upgrade to 7.10 on my girlfriends laptop (Compaq X1000) seemed to go fine, but suddenly I can't log in with the GUI any more. The machine boots up and gets to the point where the log in screen is about to pop up, but it never gets there. The spinning cursor just keeps spinning on a plain cream background. I can Control+Alt+F2 to log in, but restarting gdm and trying to startx doesn't sold anything.

I'm a bit of a newbie to the Linux command line so if there's much of that then please take baby steps with me.

I searched the forums and found something about dpkg-reconfigure-xxxx (can't remember the exact line). I tried that, but still have the same problem (and there were so many questions that I responded to without knowing the answers that I don't even know if I've made thins worse).

Any ideas?
Thanks
Damian
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