Firefox/Mozilla won't run as normal user [SOLVED]

I have had this weird thing happen, where Mozilla and Firefox wont' work as a normal users. I fixed this temporarily by allowing non-group rwx access to /tmp, however somehow the problem has returned again.
Has anyone else had this? I'm not sure what log to check for errors either. Basically, is starts loading, then exits before starting

seems to be fine here
-- no firefox folder
> ls -ld .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 5 yohoho users 184 2006-03-06 19:39 .mozilla/
>ls -l .mozilla
total 8.0K
-rw-r--r-- 1 yohoho users 335 2005-02-26 05:39 appreg
drwxr-xr-x 3 yohoho users 144 2005-02-26 05:39 firefox/
-rw------- 1 yohoho users 1.9K 2006-03-15 10:21 pluginreg.dat
drwxr-xr-x 2 yohoho users 48 2005-06-23 05:31 plugins/
drwxr-xr-x 2 yohoho users 80 2006-01-15 18:41 searchplugins/

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