hey Gator,
thanks again for the link... burried in the replies i found the answer i was looking for....again thanks.
F.E.I: throwing away this file: "com.apple.Terminal.plist" from the ~/Library/Preferences... defaults the terminal settings
p.s.s.t. to haka.
berniech.
the problem is that I've changed my terminal default settings... it's pretty embarrassing to be novice sometimes. Nowhere in the osx terminal help guide did i come across a way to correct this. This is the screen content when i start a new shell...