Terminal doesn't login

Hello,
I will write in a non-very correct english (I am italian) and I want to offer you my bigger thanks for the attention.
I would want to use a certain phisyc-simulator that i found on the web (wich format is .exe), and so i've tried to get Wine, a free program that make you able to open .exe on OSX (in my case 10.5.8). Following the instruction for Wine's installation, I had to run a certain ./file but the wine installation wrote to me (in the terminal window) that this operation (the installation) can't be completed with the root user, but have to follow the same instruction with a secondary user.
So, i've tried by first to do the same installation's step in the Guest user (the one in wich you can't save changes by logging out) but the terminal stayed empty for several minutes. I thought that the problem could be the use of the Guest user, so i've come back to the administrator one and i've created a secondary user (with no administrator "power") , but the terminal doesn't work neither here.
Now, the terminal is still not working even with the ADMINISTRATOR user.
Can someone help me?
p.s.: i've some experiences with the terminal, by the need of compile and execute in fortran; it's not new;
i've already searched online a way to solve this problem (for example i tried to see the Console's messages, and i tried to remove the file com.app.Terminal.preferences (or something like that) while logged white the secondary user (but not the Guest one))

Thank you BobHarris you are very nice.
          -I've tried to delete the come.apple.Terminal.plist in the admin. account   -----> doesn't work [does it exists in each accounts or is it just one for all?]
          -iTerm2 doesn't work
          -Installing Onyx and browsing to find the hidden files you told me ( .profile , .bash_login   etc...etc..) THE FINDER GAVE UP WORK!!!
Even by cmd+rightclick on finder icon to click on re-open (traslated by italian "riapri") i had the error message 101800 or something like that.
I solved the problem by switching off the Mac with the button... Once turned-on again the Mac ( it was a moment full of pain ), all worked fine.
After had verified that the computer didn't had big problems after the trouble with the finder, i continued to search the hidden files.
They don't exist in my Mac but LUCKILY i had the impression that execute the login file in   /usr/bin     could be the solution: it worked!!!!!!!
I had this idea because of that the problem was just the login at the terminal.... A terminal window opened quickly and asked me with wich account I wanted to login... LUCKILY i wrote the good account_name and password and all gone fine!!! (the terminal works again)
So,
thanks to seventy one for the link http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/ (i think install Wine will not be a problem now)
thanks to BobHarris too

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