What did I do? How do I fix it?

[CompUTILIZE Services]

I can log on as root and manage to use startx to get to the 
KDE desktop.

I have created a user named "bev" and can logon ok  
(ummhhh, I have created and deleted "bev" several times so 
who knows what i've done :-(   

anyway, when I logon as "bev" and do startx, i get the KFM 
error: could not create ~/.kde/share/apps/kfm/magic

then i get a blank desktop (well it's got the toolbar at the 
bottom) and if i try to run anything (at least anything i've tried), 
nothing happens.

can anybody give me a clue how to fix this?

Bev