Computer startup leads into Terminal

Hello,
Last night, after a restart, my tower booted up and went straight into the Terminal, the one that takes up the whole screen. In other words I was not able to immediately login and go to my desktop, the computer went straight to the terminal.
After entering the WRONG login name and password n the terminal (it was an accident) I was sent to the regular login screen and was able to login to my desktop. I reset the machine again and was sent to the terminal again. I entered the correct login and password and it waited for a command. I typed exit and it took me to the regular login page. I did another restart and it sent me to the terminal for a third time.
At this time I ran a fsck -f to repair permissions. It didn't find anything that needed fixing but it let me exit to the regular login page. I did another restart and was back in the terminal. I ran an app called Cocktail that cleared a lot of caches. I did another restart and this time was not sent to the terminal, but to the regular login page.
The only thing I did out of the ordinary before all of this mess started was run a prebinding command in the Terminal Utlility. I did this because FCP has not been launching and a forum post suggested it.
Does anyone have any other suggestions as to why I was stuck in the Terminal loop?
Thanks for your help!

It's not the Terminal. It's either the single-user or verbose mode. Basically, it was booting into the command line interface. Search these forums for single-user or Darwin and peruse the results. Since Cocktail appears to have fixed the problem, I wouldn't worry about it. However, you might want to check out these maintenance tips:
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