[ale] login anomaly ???

[cc.thomas at earthlink.net (Courtney Thomas)]

When I login as root, all is as usual, but if I login as a normal user, 
nothing is available, i.e. if I CD to any dir, there's nothing there, 
but if I access the same material as root, all is still present.

What's happened to my normal user and how do I fix it, please ?

Never experienced anything like this....

Thank you,
Courtney