Hmm, thanks for the swift reply, but that didn't seem to work.
So I did this to diagnose:
Last login: Tue Feb 24 20:19:31 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
DigitalGoddess:~ ropers$ pwd
/Users/ropers
DigitalGoddess:~ ropers$ ll bin
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 ropers ropers 136 24 Feb 19:58 ...