Opening a new terminal window always launches X11

I did an update from Tiger to Leopard yesterday and while most things are fine, I have a peculiar problem, that every time I open terminal, it automatically launches X11 (the terminal window shows xset as the running application in the title bar). Annoyingly, the focus switches to X11 when it starts, too. I can quit X11, but opening a new window or tab in terminal will launch it again.
Sequence of events:
1. Machine had X11 installed under Tiger.
2. Ran the Leopard update without installing the dev tools package (so as far as I understand, a new X11 wasn't installed during the process). At this point, the problem was present
3. Installed dev tools - problem persists.
4. Ran update to 10.5.2.
5. Got the x11 2.1.4 package from here (http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.4) and ran the installer.
But I still have the problem. (In case you're wondering, there's no startup command specified in the Terminal settings, either. It should just start up running bash). Any ideas?

jsiehler wrote:
Yes, thanks - sorry I misremembered where the X11 install came from originally. Anyway, what's in my .profile is the command to run fink's /sw/bin/init.sh, which was adding the old X11 directory to my PATH variable. I still don't know why exactly that was making x11 launch every time I opened a terminal window, but I do have it fixed now.
As an aside, you will probably have to uninstall Fink and install the source and build another one. Last I looked there was no binary for Leopard. If you have Tiger version of Xcode Tools, you will also have to remove that, using the supplied script and install the new, Leopard-friendly 3.0.
Also, if you were using Darwin, that too is finito.

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