Can't get past Darwin console

I just installed some Quicktime add-ons, and I restarted my Mac. It goes to a Darwin console, I can log in to the console, if I exit, it takes me back onto the startup user menu, and if I select my user account, I'm right back into Darwin, being prompted to login.
I've never used Darwin. How can I get past this console and onto my graphic interface/desktop?

Andy
The first thing to do is to look at your logs, to see the cause of being unable to start up. But rather than point you at some other threads, let's do it from scratch here. You may want to print this post out, preferably in a largish mono-spaced font.
Since you are able to log in at the prompt, this simplifies things. After logging in, let's look at the system log—type carefully, spaces and punctuation are important:
tail -20 /var/log/system.logThis command combination looks at the last 20 lines of your log which should be enough.
Look especially for messages saying something like "login authorization failed", "exiting to console" or something similar. Copy the lines above that and post them here. If you don't see this specific message, post some of the lines at the end of the log.
We'll take it from there when I see your output.

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