Upgrade freezes X

After yesterday's upgrade X froze, funny it didn't happen straight off, only after a while. Tried downgrading the kernel, no result, but back to normal after downgrading xorg-server and xorg-utils (NOT xorg-server-utils). Which of the two is the culprit i don't know.

I'm also having problems with Xorg.
Updated today the following packages;
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded dri2proto (2.1-1 -> 2.1-2)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded exiv2 (0.18.2-1 -> 0.19-1)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded ghostscript (8.71-1 -> 8.71-2)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded gstreamer0.10 (0.10.26-1 -> 0.10.28-1)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base (0.10.26-1 -> 0.10.28-1)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base-plugins (0.10.26-1 -> 0.10.28-1)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded hal (0.5.14-1 -> 0.5.14-2)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded iso-codes (3.10.1-1 -> 3.14-1)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded kdebase-runtime (4.4.1-1 -> 4.4.1-2)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded kdegraphics-ksnapshot (4.4.1-1 -> 4.4.1-2)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded kdegraphics-libs (4.4.1-1 -> 4.4.1-2)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded libspectre (0.2.3-1 -> 0.2.4-1)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded kdegraphics-okular (4.4.1-1 -> 4.4.1-2)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded printproto (1.0.4-1 -> 1.0.4-2)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded stress (1.0.0-2 -> 1.0.3-1)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded strigi (0.7.2-1 -> 0.7.2-2)
[2010-03-13 11:24] Updating font cache... done.
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded xorg-fonts-100dpi (1.0.1-2 -> 1.0.1-3)
[2010-03-13 11:24] Updating font cache... done.
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded xorg-fonts-75dpi (1.0.1-2 -> 1.0.1-3)
[2010-03-13 11:24] Updating font cache... done.
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded xorg-fonts-misc (1.0.0-4 -> 1.0.1-1)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded xorg-server (1.7.5.901-1 -> 1.7.5.901-2)
[2010-03-13 11:24] upgraded xorg-utils (7.5-1 -> 7.6-1)
And now I can't start X at all.
When I enter startx or xinit, I get a whole bunch of error messages that scroll to fast to read (and I can't figure out how to capture them either... any clues)? Before getting the following
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
When I go to downgrade my Xorg packages(xorg-server and xorg-utils) to previous versions using the following commands;
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xorg-server-1.7.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
And likewise for xorg-utils, I get a bunch of error messages when "checking for file conflicts..." about files (mainly header files) already existing in the filesystem, followed by "errors occurred, no packages were upgraded".
I'm not sure what to do next, can anyone help?

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