all suggestions are gladly welcomed. i haven't had any time to poke at it but hopefully i can find something good. i'm imagining that the lack of an xinitrc file other than the default is the culprit. i have installed perlmodules via fink and that probably has created some issues as well. thanks for all of the hints.
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