System logs in then immediately logs back out

Hello,
I have an assignment that is due in school on Monday, but there is one problem: Leopard instantly takes me back to the log in screen after I've entered my password.
Right now I'm trying to repair disk permission, but apparently I'm having trouble getting that out of the way for now.
Any suggestions or help would be welcome.
Regards,
The Wampus Cat

have you repaired permissions? You said in your first post you were having trouble with that. First thing you should do is boot from the leopard install DVD and repair the start up drive and permissions.
If that doesn't help, boot from the install DVD again and once past the language selection screen go to the Utilities menu and choose "Reset password" ( NOT "firmware password"). Select your start up disk and then your account from the pull-down menu. Click "reset ACLs and permissions" button at the bottom.
Restart and see if you can log in now. If you still can't your user account is seriously messed up and I would suggest creating a new one and moving your files there.
If you don't have another user set up, start from the leopard install DVD again and start the "reset password" utility again. This time select System administrator (root) from the pull down menu and set a password for root. This will enable root user on your machine. Restart and at the login window select other and log in as root with the password you just set. If you can's log in as root you a looking for a system reinstall. If you can log in as root, go to account preferences in system preferences and set up a new admin user. move your stuff from the corrupt user to the new one and work from that account.

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