Got round to a reinstall of edgy the other day - was getting really annoyed with whatever was screwing up all the programs such as liferea deskbar etc...

But now I have a home folder at /home/myname AND the old home folder at /home/home/myname.

A tad confusing. have managed to get a few settings to work for evolution and firefox though the attempt to transfer the eamail accounts didn't work as far as I can see.

Firefox was easy just copying over the ./.mozilla folder. Tomboy was a bit more fiddly but got there in the end.