Odd Tiger Log in screen (Black Darwin?)

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flyte44

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After installing Tiger, I now get a black screen that says something like Welcome to Darwin and then prompts me to put in my user name. Well I can put ANYTHING in there and then when I hit return it saks for a password. Again I use my password or anything else and then I hit enter and all is well (thus far). So my question is, Why do I have to have this black superfluous login screen? It doesn't help in anything and is just an annoyance because it will not go right into the Tiger environment. (Although when it does everything appears to be ok.

I did install a Divx code plugin (from their website) to allow me to play AVI files in quicktime, but I doubt that had anything to do with it. I also ran programs to fix permissions and then used Cocktail to clean out logs, caches, cron files, etc.

Can any one suggest how to get rid of this screen?
 
What this is, is: You get to the console. It's not the "normal" behaviour for Mac OS X, nor for 10.4. Something happened, it seems. After you've logged in to the console, it takes you to your desktop? Now _that's_ rather strange, I'd say...

I'd call for a backup & clean install. Unless you're starting up holding down some keys to get into single user mode, but from your post, it doesn't seem likely...
 
I am going to try again with the clean install. I do use a lot of third party software, and I have been experiencing some bugginess. LIke when I came home from work, turned the computer on (had to log in of course with that black screen again) and now NO KNOFABULATOR. I am sorry, but KONFABULATOR has a lot of interesting widgets than dashboard for now. I guess there is some bugs. I will let you know with a clean install.

ALWAYS BACK UP!!
 
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