Blank terminal window

I am looking at a blank Terminal window with only a prompt in it.
I can type at the prompt but cannot execute any commands.
I tried re-choosing some settings in preferences and also
deleting com.apple.Terminal.plist but it remained unchanged...
How can I get back to a normal Terminal window?
-mj

Thanks for replying...
I'm embarrassed to admit that a restart seemed to solve it :-/
I went to another disk to do something and when I booted back,
my Terminal window was back to normal.
It reported nothing, as I said. The only thing written to my Console.log is a mail message.
Yes, I did try to modify some preferences to get bash to be my profile again but that had no effect on the Terminal window.
7/7/10 1:41:34 PM Mail[24489] * Assertion failure in -[ComposeBackEnd setAccount:], /SourceCache/Mail/Mail-1081/Compose.subproj/ComposeBackEnd.m:1522
ComposeBackEnd does not support explicitly setting an account
0 Message 0x00007fff8350f488 -[MFAssertionHandler _handleFailureWithPreamble:description:arguments:] + 137
1 Message 0x00007fff8350f3ed -[MFAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 220
2 Mail 0x0000000100144da8 0x0 + 4296297896
3 Foundation 0x00007fff8603664a _NSSetObjectValueAndNotify + 258
4 Mail 0x0000000100143396 0x0 + 4296291222
5 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8764bd2c _invoking__ + 140
6 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8764bbfd -[NSInvocation invoke] + 141
7 Message 0x00007fff83350eb3 -[ThrowingInvocationOperation main] + 31
8 Message 0x00007fff833507f3 -[_MFInvocationOperation main] + 275
9 Foundation 0x00007fff86043061 -[__NSOperationInternal start] + 681
10 Foundation 0x00007fff86042d17 ___startOperations_block_invoke2 + 99
11 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff873ec1b0 dispatch_call_block_andrelease + 15
12 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff873ca751 dispatch_workerthread2 + 239
13 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff873ca088 pthreadwqthread + 353
14 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff873c9f25 start_wqthread + 13
-mj

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